Checking out the Miss You Much Leslie and other film related exhibitions at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum (Photo-essay)

It's been years since I visited the Hong Kong Heritage Museum.  After finally doing so earlier this week, I regret not having done so months earlier; this especially so since if I had done so just a little more than a month ago, I'd have been able to catch the Out of Thin Air: Hong Kong Film Art and Costumes special exhibition which ran for four months.  And having missed out on that, I was determined not to also miss out on viewing the Miss You Much Leslie special exhibition commemorating this year having been the 20th year of superstar singer-actor Leslie Cheung's passing (which is scheduled to end this upcoming Monday (October 9th).  

 

As it so happened, when I went to the museum, I found some nice surprises!  Firstly, entrance to the museum's currently free! (I recall it previously being HK$10 for general admissions and HK$25 for special exhibitions, like the one on Monet back in 2016 and that on the works of Studio Ghibli back in 2014.)  Secondly, I found that a number of the museum's other exhibitions have film connections too.  

 

For the record: they don't only include the special exhibition on Bruce Lee and the installation in the Jin Yong Gallery (which I had already seen on a previous visit) but also a special display on Kwan Tak-hing (which opened in May 2021) and the new Hong Kong Pop 60+   permanent exhibition on Hong Kong popular culture from 1945 to the early 2000s (which, as far as I could see, went up to at least 2018, since I saw clips in it from Still Human)...

Outside the Miss You Much Leslie exhibition space

 

Many of the costumes and photos in the exhibition got me

(fondly) recalling attending a Leslie Cheung concert

in Atlantic so many years ago now...

 

Really miss you much, Leslie :S

 

Before Leslie, there was Bruce Lee -- and yes, I must say 

I was surprised to see the colors used (t)here since

they are associated with Hong Kong pro-democracy protests

(along with Bruce Lee's famous "Be water" quote)!

 

And before Bruce Lee, there was 

martial artist-film star Kwan Tak-hing

 

Bruce Lee's image also is on the front of the Hong Kong Pop 60+

exhibition (and the exhibition also features Leslie Cheung content)

 

A display in the music section of the exhibition (Photography 

was not allowed for copyright reasons in the film section :( )

 

What with many Hong Kong entertainers dabbling in more than

one field though, the music section still had film connections

(E.g., that white gown was worn by superstar singer-actress 

Anita Mui, the subject of the 2021 Anita biopic)