They did it! They built a goddamn Tesla Museum

Last August, I had posted (here and here) about a fundraising effort to purchase Nikola Tesla's final laboratory and establish a museum. The group behind this needed to raise $850,000 and the State of New York would match funds. They blew past this mark in a few days and managed to raise $1,370,511 over the course of the fundraising session (45 days). There is a nice article over at EDN Magazine:
Tesla museum is a go!
Score one for smart science and engineering-loving people.

Over the summer, we shared that a not-for-profit group was trying to scrape together enough funding through crowd sourcing to buy the land Tesla�s last lab sits on in Shoreham, NY.

The land was up for sale, priced at $1.6 million, and had a bid on it by a developer looking to build a retail establishment. But if, by chance, the group was able to get the cash and secure the land, they planned to build a Tesla museum.

Since then the group, now calling themselves Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, raised about $1.4 million made up of corporate and individual donations, as well as government funding.

The group reported earlier this month that it has purchased the land. Plans to build a museum honoring Tesla and his work are moving ahead.

Now, keeping any museum alive is in a resource challenge in itself. Finding people to manage the day to day operations, working with local and state governments -- Just keeping the lights on can be a financial challenge (hey, someone should figure out a way to transmit energy wirelessly and inexpensively or something �).

But here�s more good news: In the short six weeks that the group did fundraising, hundreds of people volunteered their time and professional expertise to get the project started and to transform the 100-plus year-old brick building into a world-renowned museum and interactive science education center. Contact the group here if you�d like to contribute resources, experience, financial or otherwise.

No word yet from the group on when the museum will be open for visitors, but we�ll be watching and you can count on EDN taking a trip out to Shoreham to check it out. Let us know if you plan to visit or offer support in the comments field below.
The group can be found here: Tesla Science Center. Time to knock Edison and Marconi off their pedestals and put them in their proper place in the history books...

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