Bob Marley Museum
Bob Marley's Hope Road house and Tuff Gong studio, shown on guided tours of rooms kept as he left them.
The museum occupies the nineteenth-century colonial house at 56 Hope Road that Bob Marley bought in 1975 and used as his home and as the headquarters of Tuff Gong Records until his death in 1981. His widow, Rita Marley, opened it to the public in 1987. The plain two-storey building sits behind a wall painted with the red, gold and green of the Rastafari movement, in a residential district of upper Kingston not far from Devon House and the University of the West Indies.
Visits are by guided tour of about an hour and a quarter. Rooms have been left much as they were, including Marley's bedroom, his kitchen and the rehearsal space, and displays cover gold and platinum awards, newspaper cuttings, stage clothes and personal possessions. Bullet holes from the December 1976 attempt on his life are still visible. The grounds contain the original Tuff Gong recording studio, a photographic gallery, an eighty-seat cinema and a cafe.
Highlights
- Marley's bedroom, kitchen and rehearsal room preserved as they were in 1981
- Bullet holes left from the attack on the house in December 1976
- The original Tuff Gong recording studio in the grounds
- Gold and platinum discs, stage clothing and press archives
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