Yugoslavia establishes the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade to hold his archive
On 5 December 1952 the Yugoslav government resolved to establish the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade. The museum opened on 20 October 1955 and remains the holder of Tesla’s personal archive. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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On 5 December 1952 the Yugoslav government resolved to establish the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade. The museum opened on 20 October 1955 and remains the holder of Tesla’s personal archive.
Context
The urn and the papers are later museum holdings. Contribution is small and complex on the museum itself.
Nikola Tesla is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Why it matters
Knowledge-access path through an archive. High confidence on the institutional dates.
A museum is not a motor patent. Keep 1888 and 1952 on separate rows.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Nikola Tesla
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.2 · verified
Complex: successor-state museum about him. Stored because it is the public-archive instrument for the papers.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactYugoslavia establishes the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade to hold his archive
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 5 December 1952 · verified
Opening a dedicated archive-museum increased public access to patents, letters and apparatus, a knowledge path with lag measured in years after death.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.22 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.19 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.UNESCO Memory of the World — Nikola Tesla's ArchiveUNESCO · High credibility · verified
- 2.Nikola Tesla Museum — historyNikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
The museum’s history page dates the 1952 decision and 1955 opening. UNESCO’s Memory of the World entry independently identifies the Belgrade archive.
Established: museum founded 1952, opened 1955, holding the personal collection. Not established: that Tesla designated a Yugoslav museum in a 1943 will that this catalog cites.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorNikola Tesla
- contributed toFactYugoslavia establishes the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade to hold his archive
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Yugoslavia establishes the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade to hold his archive. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/rs-tesla-museum-1952
https://factrail.ai/facts/rs-tesla-museum-1952
Accessed 15 October 2026.
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