About museum
Museum Tesla is a non-state, non-profit exposition established by
Historical Czechoslovakian Radio-club seated in Trest. Museum Tesla has
been developing gradually since 1995 and according to our sources at the
present day it has the biggest collection of the similarly aimed
exhibits in Europe.
Important milestones of our history
In 1985 our radio-club started the campaign named "Tesla Czechoslovakia
Foundation", in which within rescuing the existentially threated
technical attractions the task of creating a museum of Czechoslovakian
radio industry was given. Collection items were gathered and stored in
various parts of the republic. The major part was placed in the
historical building of the transmitting centre in Podebrady, where a
public exhibition was supposed to come into existence. However, in 2002
the radio-club was forced to leave these premises and in a very short
time to find the new suitable ones for storing the entire collection
under one roof.
In May 2003 the building of former granary in Trest near Jihlava was
successfully bought into the property of our radio-club. Later, this
building became the main and official residence of the radio-club. After
10 years of reconstructions and adaptations, which are still far from
over, in August 2012 the first public exhibition named "Tesla, the
Heritage of CZ Electric Industry" was ceremonially opened in the
building, with the significant help of MAS Trestsko and successfully
obtained grant of the EU Foundations. In 2013 the reconstruction and
adaptation of the building is still being in progress and other two
permanent expositions "Heavy Radio Technology" (placed on the ground
floor of the building) and "Amateur Radio-operators and Handymen" (placed
on the highest floor) are gradually coming into existence. Hopefully,
the both expositions will be ceremonially opened in 2015.
In 2014 with regard to the continually growing collections and the
critical shortage of storage space, the radio-club decided to purchase
on its own costs another building of the former granary, whose location
is not far from the existing exhibition area. That state of that
building is very similar to the state which the existing exhibition area
used to be in at the moment of purchasing. Another reconstruction and a
lot of adaptations will be needed again for that building to be used as
a depositary of the collection items. The building is not going to be
accessible for public, only at the special occasions the visitors will
be allowed to look behind the closed door of the sections'
administrators and to see the treasures, which are not normally
exhibited.
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