Nikola Tesla Museum of Science & Industry

Address:2200 E Bijou St.
Colorado Springs, Colorado

The Tesla Museum of Science is actually located in Belgrade, Serbia. Sorry about that. There once was a Tesla Museum in Colorado Springs, but that closed in 1998. The exhibits that were once there somehow disappeared and ended up on eBay. If you are a real Tesla fan (and not just a casual user of AC current) you might just be able to pick up an original Nikola Tesla turbine generator on eBay. But you were looking for a museum, so lets try to be serious about that. First, about Serbia. The museum does a pretty good job of documenting and displaying his inventions and discoveries. Did you know that Tesla invented the remote control? He is an unknown hero to couch potatoes worldwide. Now for an interesting story about how the world's best collection of Tesla artifacts made it to Serbia, even though the man never spent more than a day in Serbia. Tesla's nephew was a KGB agent and somehow the material from New York was hijacked by the Yugoslavian government on its way from the United States and never returned.

The Smithsonian Museum has exhibits on Tesla's work and you can see his work first hand at Niagara Falls. He designed the hydroelectric plant, one of the first in the world. In case you are confused about Tesla's life, and to sum up this description of a museum that does not exist, he was a Serb, who was born in Croatia and loved the United States. He worked for (and was cheated by) Thomas Edison in New Jersey and he died in New York. He did much of his work in Colorado Springs, thus the Tesla Museum in Colorado Springs existed for a while

We are talking about a man whose major scientific gifts to the world (of AC power transmission and Radio), more than anything else, caused a Second Industrial Revolution. How else can one explain the meteoric advance of science from the horse an buggy days of 1895, when the Niagara Power Project adopted his polyphase AC power system, followed by his invention of Radio...then a mere 74 years later man walked on the moon? It just had to be Tesla who 'invented tomorrow.'