Bruce Lee's House Museum

Kung fu legend Bruce Lee's ex-home will be turned into a museum filled with martial arts weaponry.





You would expect a dead film icon’s house would hold some kind of special cachet; that a suitably wealthy fan would want to spend silly amounts of money to inhabit the ex-home of their favorite deceased film crush. After all, someone once spent $38,000 at auction to acquire a bible owned by Marilyn Monroe.

So, it comes as a bit of a surprise that late kung fu legend Bruce Lee’s old house almost suffered the ignominious fate of becoming a “seedy love motel,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Luckily, in the nick of time, a philanthropic Hong Kong tycoon (see above) has swooped in with a bid to turn the roundhousing marvel’s house into a tourist attraction.

The fate of the the two-storey town house in the suburb of Kowloon hung in the balance for years, until real estate and hotel tycoon Yu Pang-lin, who owns it, decided to donate it to the city of Hong Kong. It will be turned into a museum and Lee’s study and training hall will be recreated and filled with martial arts weaponry.

Lee was the star of kung fu classics like “Fist of Fury,” “Game of Death” and “Enter the Dragon.” He died in mysterious circumstances in 1973 at the age of 32.