Museum of Nikola Tesla, who is known in the U.S. and in the Balkans as the inventor of radio, may lose its only building in Belgrade. Heirs of owner of two-storey mansion, which was confiscated after World War II, are trying to return the property, writes ee24.com citing telegraf.rs.
Agency for restitution says there are no obstacles for such transfer, and if all documentation is properly framed, the process can be completed within six months.
The building was built in 1927, and the museum was founded 1952. In its collection there are models of devices invented by Tesla, as well as documents that illuminate his biography and work. Also, there is the urn containing the ashes of Tesla in one of exhibition halls. In early 2014 it was announced that it might be buried in the church, but the scientific community opposed this prospect.