TESLINA IMOVINA POKLONJENA DRŽAVI Posle smrti Nikole Tesle 1943. u hotelu Njujorker , sva njegova imovina, prethodno predata službi za čuvanje imovine stranaca, pripala je Sa- vi Kosanoviću, sinu njegove najmlađe sestre Marice, srpskom političa- ru, publicisti, diplomati i članu vlade Kraljevine Jugoslavije u izbeglištvu koji je boravio u Njujorku. Njegovim zalaganjem je 1951. predata Beo- gradu i prvo bila smeštena na Elektrotehničkom fakultetu u Beogradu, a onda 1952. u vilu Đorđa Genčića, u kojoj se danas Muzej nalazi. Vlada FNRJ donela je 1952. godine rešenje o osnivanju Muzeja Niko- le Tesle, koji je 1955. otvoren za javnost (kao prvi tehnički muzej u Jugoslaviji). Međutim, 1957. se smatra početnom godinom muzeolo- ške delatnosti jer je tada deo postavke postala i urna sa naučniko- vim posmrtnim ostacima. Od 9. oktobra 1969. Muzej je u vlasništvu grada Beograda, a 2003. je Teslinu arhivu Unesko uvrstio u registar Pamćenje sveta . Muzej, koji je delo arhitekte Dragiše Brašovana, potrudio se da svu građu digitalizacijom i mikrofilmovanjem sačuva za generacije koje dolaze. Važan korak bilo je i objavljivanje Tesline autobiografije, poslednje izdanje iz 2006. nosi naziv Moji izumi .
TESLA’S PROPERTY DONATED TO THE STATE
After Nikola Tesla’s 1943 death at the Hotel New Yorker, all of his property, which had been previously handed over to the Service for Preserving the Assets of Foreigners, belonged to Sava Kosanović, the son of his youngest sister, Marica, and a Serbian politician, pub- licist, diplomat and member of the Government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in exile, who was resident in New York. In 1951, thanks to his advocacy, the assets were given to the City of Belgrade, initially housed at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, and then moved, in 1952, to the villa of Đorđe Genčić, where the Tesla Muse- um is located today. It was in 1952 that the government of the then Yugoslavia adopted a decision on the establishment of the Nikola Tesla Museum, which opened to the public in 1955 (as the rst technical museum in Yugo- slavia). However, 1957 is considered as the beginning of its museo- logical activity, because it was then that the urn with the scientist’s ashes became part of the museum’s collection. The Tesla Museum has been under the ownership of the City of Belgrade since 9 th Octo- ber 1969, and in 2003 UNESCO included Tesla’s archive in its “Memo- ry of the World” list. The museum building was the work of architect Dragiša Brašovan, and the museum itself has made eorts to ensure that all materials are digitised and microlmed for the generations to come. Important steps also included the publishing of Tesla’s autobi- ography (the most recent edition, published in 2006, is entitled “My Inventions”).
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