The Nikola Tesla Museum occupies a villa at Krunska 51 in Belgrade, designed by Dragiša Brašovan and built in 1927 for Đorđe Genčić. The new communist authorities confiscated it in 1945, and it was later used for various purposes. The museum was founded on December 5, 1952, by decision of the Yugoslav government. Its permanent exhibition was arranged in 1955.
The exhibition fills four rooms on the ground floor. The museum holds over 160,000 original documents, over 1,200 historical technical exhibits and over 1,500 photographs and plates. Tesla's urn is displayed there. His archive was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2003.
A reconstruction began on November 3, 2006, and the article says it is now complete. The museum had 120,000 visitors in 2017.
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