Nikola Tesla Memorial Center
Memorijalni centar Nikola Tesla | |
 Nikola Tesla's birth house | |
  The location of the Memorial Center within Croatia | |
| Established | 2006 |
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| Location | Smiljan, Croatia |
| Coordinates | 44°33′34.06″N 15°18′31.21″E / 44.5594611°N 15.3086694°ECoordinates: 44°33′34.06″N 15°18′31.21″E / 44.5594611°N 15.3086694°E Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. |
| Type | Biographical and technology museum |
| Visitors | ~44,000 |
| Director | Vesna Bunčić |
| Curator | Mile Čorak |
| Website | www |
The Nikola Tesla Memorial Center is a cultural-historical site located in Smiljan, Croatia, at the birthplace of Nikola Tesla, one of the world's foremost electrical researchers and inventors. It is dedicated to Tesla, who was born in 1856 in his parents' house in Smiljan[1], then part of the Croatian Military Frontier within the Habsburg Monarchy. The young scientist later left his homeland to work in the United States of America. The Lika Museum in nearby Gospić administers the site.
History
The Memorial Center was opened to the public on the 150th anniversary of Tesla's birthday, 10 July 2006, by the President of the Republic of Croatia.[2] The original memorial site was first established as a museum in 1956, but it was damaged during the Croatian War of Independence. After the war it was renovated, improved, equipped and opened as Memorial Center.
Architecture and exhibits
On its surface area of 1.37 square kilometres, the memorial complex contains various components: museum in the birth house[3] of Nikola Tesla (where the details of his life are shown in a permanent exhibition of artifacts, documents, photographs and audiovisual material), then Orthodox church of St. Peter and Paul, an old agricultural building, village cemetery, Tesla’s testing station, stone monuments, benches and river banks designed by architect Zdenko Kolacio, a metal statue of Nikola Tesla made by sculptor Mile Blažević, an open-air auditorium, prototypes of some Tesla’s inventions[4] (induction motor, Tesla’s turbine, rotating magnetic field, Tesla coil), a multimedia center, etc.
Various scientific and educational activities or presentations are occasionally organized in the Memorial Center. Over the past years the number of visitors coming to the site has been steadily growing. 41,000 tourists from many countries from all over the world visited the center in 2016.[5] In 2018 this number increased to over 44,000 people.
Gallery
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Memorial Center reception building -
Tourists visiting Memorial Center -
Tesla's birth house entrance -
Buildings and surrounding area -
Tesla's experimental station -
See also
References
- ↑ *Hardyman, Robyn (2015). Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison – Dynamic duos of science. New York: Gareth Stevens Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4824-1296-3. Search this book on
- ↑ Šoštarić, Tomislav (11 February 2015). "Kuća čuda u rodnom mjestu Nikole Tesle". Al Jazeera.
- ↑ *Brstilo Rešetar, Matea (2007). "The Permanent Display of the Birth House of Nikola Tesla in Smiljan (scientific work)". Zagreb: Hrvatski povijesni muzej (Croatian History Museum).
- ↑ *Jovanović, Dragan (2017). "Innovations at the Memorial Center „Nikola Tesla" in Smiljan (scientific work)". Zagreb: Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica /NSK/ (National and University Library).
- ↑ "10 godina Memorijalnog centra Nikola Tesla u Smiljanu". 11 January 2017.[permanent dead link]
External links
- Memorial Center information data
- Memorial Center guide
- Memorial Center – thematic park consisting of renovated birth house, church, various exhibits and multimedia centre
- Nikola Tesla timeline (in Croatian)
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