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The Tesla Museum already exists.

And there is a memorial center in his home village Smiljan in Croatia http://www.mcnikolatesla.hr/ . Tesla cars are often seen there, as it has a free charger for electric cars (rarity in Croatia), although it's not a supercharger (Elon Musk, what are you waiting for? :D )

Tesla memorial center was a stop during the Croatian EV rally earlier this year, with both Tesla S and roadster models participating (pictures available in gallery on their website)

The Tesla Museum already exists.

Tesla did great work with AC generators and motors. Most common AC motors today still use approaches he invented. That's his legacy.

Wardenclyffe, though, is a monument to failure. From his patents, you can read how he thought it would work. He thought the ionosphere was a conductive layer. The Wardenclyffe tower was supposed to punch power through the atmosphere to that conductive layer, so that signals and maybe power could be received elsewhere.

The ionosphere does not work that way. Tesla's tower would have done nothing useful, although with 200KW at 20KHz going in, it probably could have lit up fluorescent lamps and gas tubes for some distance around. Since the location is now surrounded by a housing subdivision, rebuilding the tower and powering it up would annoy the neighbors.

Museum? I told 'em we already got one.

Now if we can only get Tesla in the rock and roll hall of fame, he'll be one up on that upstart Einstein

The only Tesla myseum right now is in Belgrade http://www.tesla-museum.org/ http://www.teslasociety.com/ www.teslasociety.com/ in cooperation with the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia. Tesla Corner. ****Nikola Tesla St. **** It was founded in Buffalo, New York in 1979. It is the oldest Tesla Society in Buffalo, 59-27 Woodbine Street, New York, NY 11385

I am not an electrical engineer (IANAEE) but I have a read a couple of books on Tesla and struggled through some of the papers he wrote and one thing that seems to be constant is that he was way ahead of his time. However, reading through some of the annotated papers something that stands out is that he was actually working with some stuff that we didn't even have the correct terminology for and that Tesla seems to be a lot more of an intuitive experimentalist than someone that worked with electrical theory. Thus, this tends to mean two things, to me at least, in regards to Wardenclyffe, namely that the only person that would likely know what Tesla was planning on doing is Tesla and there is a pretty good chance that people might also be assuming that Wardenclyffe was intended to do more than it was meant for.

I would have to get the books out, but I seem to recall that Wardenclyffe was partly a proof-of-concept demonstration based upon his Colorado Springs, CO experiments so I find it hard to believe that it wouldn't work like he intended. Also, one of his papers on the wireless transmission of electricity explained that a series of towers similar to Wardenclyffe would be needed throughout the world in order to achieve his goals.

However, I am willing to concede that the plans might not have worked out as Tesla had hoped for even if he did not encounter the financial issues due to a lack of full understanding of electrical theory. All told though, it would be a shame to have museums dedicated to Edison here in the US, but you have to the Tesla Museum in Serbia if you want to learn about him outside of books.

While the majority of people don't know who Tesla was or what he contributed to the modern world, it's safe to say that most of the people here on /. are - at least - aware of him.

If I ever make it to Belgrade, I'm planning to check out the Nikola Tesla Museum. :)

Here we go...

Given that you seem to like his work, let me point you out to Tesla's Museum Webpage in Belgrade.

Been to the museum myself; it is not big, but there are quite a numbre of experiments set up you can reproduce and explanaition of the phenomena you are observing. The last experiment consists of his wireless transmission of power idea he had. You hold up a fluorescent lamp below a big power generator, the lights dim out and you actually see the lamp light up. Its a bit frightening because of the size of the whole thing and all the crackling. His ashes are also located there.