Nikola Tesla Memorial Center
Memorijalni centar Nikola Tesla | |
Nikola Tesla's birth house | |
| Established | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Location | Smiljan, Croatia |
| Coordinates | 44°33′34.06″N 15°18′31.21″E / 44.5594611°N 15.3086694°E |
| Type | Biographical and technology museum |
| Visitors | 49,553 (2017) |
| Director | Vesna Bunčić |
| Curator | Mile Čorak |
| Website | mcnikolatesla |
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 Kingdom of Croatia within the Austrian Empire. The young engineer later left his homeland to work in America. The Lika Museum in nearby Gospić administers the site.