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Memorial Center "Nikola Tesla"

Museums & Art Centres
The Memorial Center "Nikola Tesla" is dedicated to the life and work of the inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and futurist, Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943), who was born in Smiljan. His birth house was turned into a memorial center.

The permanent exhibition can be found in the birth house where the life road and the genius of Tesla are presented in picture, word and sound. 

The attic of the house, adapted in a modern style, shows some of Tesla’s inventions; the Tesla’s turbine, the Tesla coil, and the rotating magnetic field (Columbus Egg), all of which can be manually activated.  

He emigrated to the USA, but his ashes are displayed in a gold-plated sphere on a marble pedestal in the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb.

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Memorial Center "Nikola Tesla"

Memorijalni centar "Nikola Tesla"
Smiljan 87/1
53211 Smiljan
Croatia