He was born on 10th July 1856, in Smiljana, Croatia (then Austrian Empire). In this village, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the inventor's birth, Croatian authorities opened the Tesla Memorial Center, including a museum arranged inside his restored family home. Today, Nikola Tesla's house and an Orthodox church and nearby surroundings form a complex dedicated to the inventor's memory, with various exhibitions on his inventions and a museum where details from his life are presented. The original Memorial Center was destroyed during Operation Storm in 1995 when the Croatian army burned down Tesla's house and other parts of the complex at the time. Everything was rebuilt in 2001, a few years before the new center opened. There is a monument to Nikola Tesla on the center's grounds.
