On Jan 23, 2001 famed Wing Chun Grand Master and renowned painter/sculptor Moy Yat passed away in his home in Queens, New York. As is true of all great martial artists and philosophers, Moy Yat amassed legions of students and grand students, many themselves now Masters of Wing Chun Kung Fu, who will carry on the art of Wing Chun and the wisdom of Kung Fu life that he strove daily to preserve. Perhaps history will best remember him as the planter of the seed for the Ving Tsun Museum. The Museum itself was a dream Moy Yat's own teacher, Grand Master Yip Guy Man, expressed for 40 years. Moy Yat preserved that dream following Yip Man's death and sparked the fires that made it a reality 25 years later.

The world will miss the beauty of his artistic expressions and the wisdom of his words, but products of each will live on in the tens of thousands of Moy Yat family Wing Chun practitioners he produced. In terms of humanity's heritage, that is the greatest of all gifts to leave behind.