Nikola Tesla Technical Museum

The museum of technology in Croatia was established as a result of the efforts of Dr Bonz Tezak, a professor at Zagreb University, and was formally constituted in 1954, although there was an earlier museum of trades and crafts in the city which had ceased to function. It occupies timber buildings originally erected for the celebrated trade fair held at Zagreb, which moved to a new site in 1956. There are seven principal departments. Those dealing with industrial heritage include transportation, whose collections include motor cars and railway locomotives, geology, which covers mining of coal and minerals and oil extraction, and Croatians notable for their work in science and technology.