The ceremony, organised under the auspices of the Croatian Parliament which declared 2006 as the Year of Nikola Tesla, will pool the top Croatian officials and Serbian President Boris Tadic is also expected to come.
The newly-built theme park and a multimedia centre, a project worth 50 million kuna (6.8 million euros), will be opened on this occasion, The funds for this purpose have been mainly ensured from donations.
Theoretical work and patents of Tesla, who died in New York in 1943, form the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution. Tesla is said to have contributed in varying degrees to the fields of robotics, ballistics, computer science, nuclear physics, and theoretical physics.
A monument honouring Tesla was unveiled in downtown Zagreb on Friday as part of celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great scientist and inventor.