8/1 Thursday
The
Tesla museum is not far from our apartment. The few blocks make an interesting
walk as we pass a number of Embassies and hostels, sharing the neighborhood, which
we think is sort of odd.
At
the museum, there’s a tour going on, and people are waiting for it to finish
before they can get their entry tickets. The rooms are arranged in a circle
around a center stairway, all open, with no waiting room. We walk around the
exhibits while we wait for the tour. The guide is an aggressive, loud young man
who takes his job very seriously. He stops the tour to come right over to tell
some people to please Keep Quiet He Is Giving A TOUR! We can actually see and
hear the whole thing. He fires up a giant Tesla core in the middle of the room,
sending sparks out and lighting up fluorescent lights. “No saber fighting,
please, they are not so durable!” Ha ha. The exhibit has some models and
documents, and a lot of photos and papers from Tesla’s death and funeral, and
the story of shipping his belongings back to Yugoslavia.
When
the tour is finally over, we ask if there are more exhibits, and when the next
tour is. We find out that the next tour is in Serbian, and the first floor is
the whole museum. Well, since we’ve seen and heard most of it, we consider this
museum done.
Back
on the Knez Mihailova, we pass a fancy building with a sign for the Zepter
Museum, so we take a look. We can’t tell what the original use of the building
was, perhaps offices, but it’s fairly opulent, lots of marble columns and carved
doorways. Now, it’s housing a Contemporary Art collection. It’s all very
interesting work, primarily regional artists. We spend an hour or so enjoying
the exhibition.
1 Video Included
Belgrade Zepter Museum
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