Nikola Tesla Memorial Center

Nikola Tesla Memorial Center
Memorijalni centar Nikola Tesla
Photograph
Nikola Tesla's birth house
Nikola Tesla Memorial Center is located in Croatia
Nikola Tesla Memorial Center
The location of the Memorial Center within Croatia
Established2006; 18 years ago (2006)
LocationSmiljan, Croatia
Coordinates44°33′34.06″N 15°18′31.21″E / 44.5594611°N 15.3086694°E / 44.5594611; 15.3086694
TypeBiographical and technology museum
Visitors49,553 (2017)[1]
DirectorVesna Bunčić
CuratorMile Čorak
Websitemcnikolatesla.hr/en/

The Nikola Tesla Memorial Center is a cultural-historical site and museum located in Smiljan, Croatia, located at the birthplace of Nikola Tesla, one of the world's foremost engineers and inventors. It is dedicated to Tesla, who was born in 1856 in his Serb parents house in Smiljan, then part of the Croatian Military Frontier within the Habsburg monarchy. The young engineer later left his homeland to work in America. The Lika Museum in nearby Gospić administers the site.

  1. ^ "Posjećenost hrvatskih muzeja u 2017. godini" (PDF). mdc.hr (in Croatian). Zagreb: Museum Documentation Center. Retrieved 1 October 2019.