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The Bruce Lee exhibition will include a documentary and interviews.

Enter the long-awaited Bruce Lee show

Late kung fu star's clothing, pictures and tools will go on display for the first time in July as part of a long-awaited exhibition to run for five years

Bruce Lee

More than 100 items of memorabilia telling the life story of late kung fu legend Bruce Lee will go on display for the first time in July.

The five-year Bruce Lee exhibition at the Heritage Museum in Sha Tin is the result of efforts by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department after a plan to convert the star's former home into a museum fell through.

The department said most of the exhibits would be on loan from the Bruce Lee Foundation, a public benefit corporation which aims to promote and preserve the legacy of the late star, run by his family - wife Linda Lee Cadwell and daughter Shannon Lee.

The items will include clothing, pictures and tools used by Lee to practice kung fu. The items have never been shown publicly.

The exhibition, covering over 600 square metres, will also feature a 2-1/2 hour documentary telling Lee's life story and interviews with those who were close to him.

In 2008, philanthropist Yu Panglin offered to donate Lee's former home, a two-storey house at 41 Cumberland Road in Kowloon Tong, in the hope of turning it into a museum. But the conditions to expand the house into a fully fledged museum complex could not be agreed upon, and the plan was scrapped in 2011.

The Legislative Council last year approved funding of HK$24.8 million to stage an exhibition commemorating the influential screen icon, who died in 1973. "We believe this will be hugely popular," said Leisure and Cultural Services director Betty Fung Ching Suk-yee, adding the department would work with the Tourism Board and Travel Industry Council to promote the show to visitors. The exhibition will run for five years, after which it will be reviewed by the department.

The Bruce Lee show won't be the year's only cultural highlight. From May, mainland critic Pi Daojian will guest curate at the Museum of Art - a look at Chinese art from a diaspora perspective, featuring works by more than 40 Chinese artists from the mainland, Hong Kong and beyond. And a public art space will be created outside the museum in a revamp.

The department said it would organise more exhibitions by guest curators in the coming year, and develop collectors' series showing works that were in the hands of private collectors.

Last year, public museums saw record-high visitor numbers - totalling 5,795,426. Some 299,662 people saw at the Museum of Art. The Roman Tam exhibition at the Heritage Museum had 474,117 visitors.

 

This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Enter the Bruce Lee show - at last
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