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An immersive feature in the revamped Bruce Lee exhibition in Hong Kong. Photo: Dickson Lee

Revamped Bruce Lee exhibition to open in Hong Kong, with about 200 items previously unseen in the city on display

  • Fresh display featuring personal memorabilia entirely new to a Hong Kong audience opens on Sunday in Sha Tin
  • Enter the Dragon star would have turned 81 this weekend as his daughter vows ‘his legacy continues’
Bruce Lee
Hong Kong Heritage Museum celebrated Bruce Lee’s 81st birthday on Saturday by unveiling a relaunched exhibition devoted to the kung fu legend.

Almost a year in the making, the revamped “A Man Beyond the Ordinary: Bruce Lee” features exhibits previously unseen by the Hong Kong public.

The immersive experience opens officially on Sunday and draws on new technology to delve deeper into his work, life and thoughts.

Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940, in San Francisco. Photo: @brucelee/Instagram

About 400 items – including Lee’s personal memorabilia and photographs that are being showcased for the first time – will be displayed to reveal more about the cultural icon’s life and times.

Among the new highlights are a baby jacket worn by Lee, a fencing mask he used while studying in Hong Kong, more personal letters to his wife Linda, exam revision notes he took at the University of Washington, and original set design drawings for his hit film Enter the Dragon.

Large-scale lighting and interactive installations are part of the revamp, including an optical fibre projection laying out some of Lee’s ideas on martial arts and life philosophy.

An immersive light and sensory installation called “Self. Martial Arts. Emptiness” was also created, reflecting the array and depth of his talent.

The new “A Man Beyond the Ordinary: Bruce Lee” exhibition opens to the public on Sunday. Photo: Dickson Lee

Exhibition curator Carmen Wong Ka-man described devising the revamped exhibit as a “challenging process”.

“We tried to make the best effort to bring new things in but we also tried to keep the best old things,” she said.

“For the exhibits, we got something new from the Bruce Lee Foundation. We keep a lot of the old exhibits from the last exhibit as we want to continue the storyline to keep telling the story.”

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Wong said the new items placed a greater emphasis on telling “little stories” and the concepts behind them that shaped Lee’s life.

Of the 400 exhibits on display, 50 per cent are entirely new for a Hong Kong audience.

More than 3.7 million Hongkongers flocked to the original exhibition between 2013 and 2020.

The yellow tracksuit worn by Bruce Lee in The Game of Death. Photo: Dickson Lee

Lee lived in Hong Kong as a child before returning aged 18 to the United States, where he was born. He taught martial arts and starred in many films, rising to global stardom. Lee died in 1973 at the age of 32.

His daughter, Shannon Lee, said she was delighted to extend the collaboration with the museum and offer a revamped exhibition on the icon’s birthday.

“Bruce Lee is an experience. And I’m so genuinely pleased that all of you get to experience this exhibit and through the exhibit to experience him as well,” Lee said, speaking from Los Angeles.

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“Because even though we’ve been without him for a number of years now, his legacy continues to live on. It continues to inspire people all around the world.”

The free exhibition, located at the Heritage Museum in Sha Tin, opens to the public on Sunday and will run until 2026.

It is presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and jointly organised by the Bruce Lee Foundation and the museum.

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