Nikola Tesla Museum
Tesla's personal archive, working models and his ashes, housed in a 1920s villa in Vračar.
The museum occupies a villa on Krunska Street built between 1927 and 1929 to designs by the architect Dragiša Brašovan for the politician Đorđe Genčić. The property was nationalised after the Second World War, and in December 1952 the Yugoslav government founded the Nikola Tesla Museum there. The institution opened its doors to visitors in 1955 and has remained the only museum in the world devoted entirely to the life and scientific work of the Serbian-American inventor.
Its holdings run to several thousand original documents, technical drawings, photographs, books and personal effects transferred from New York after Tesla's death in 1943. In 2003 the Tesla archive was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. Displays combine archival material with reconstructed apparatus, and guided tours include live demonstrations of induction motors, a remote-controlled boat and a Tesla coil. An urn holding the inventor's ashes is also kept at the museum.
Highlights
- UNESCO Memory of the World archive of Tesla's papers
- Live demonstrations of the Tesla coil and induction motor
- Golden urn containing Nikola Tesla's ashes
- 1929 villa by Dragiša Brašovan in leafy Krunska Street
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