George Lucas’ narrative art museum opens next year in LA

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has been implicit a decennary successful the making, but its opening time is yet successful sight. It’s officially little than a twelvemonth distant connected September 22nd, 2026.

The depository volition see implicit 40,000 works of “narrative art,” ranging from murals to comic publication creation and, of course, cinematic artifacts. Among those are the Lucas Archives, “containing models, props, conception art, and costumes from Lucas’s filmmaking career,” which presumably includes astatine slightest a fewer Star Wars relics. 

It sounds similar Lucas’s filmmaking memorabilia volition beryllium conscionable a tiny portion of the museum, which is dedicated to illustrated storytelling broadly. Its 35 galleries volition see themes similar family, childhood, sports, and adventure. The enactment featured successful those galleries includes immoderate large names similar Norman Rockwell, Frida Kahlo, and Jack Kirby. 

The depository was co-founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, erstwhile seat of DreamWorks Animation, and is located successful Exposition Park successful LA.