The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open on Sept. 22, 2026.
Co-founded by George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, the 11-acre campus is located in Exposition Park in Los Angeles and features a 300,000-square-foot building with 35 galleries totaling 100,000 square feet.
The museum’s permanent collection holds more than 40,000 works of art by Norman Rockwell, Kadir Nelson, Jessie Willcox Smith, N. C. Wyeth, Beatrix Potter, Judy Baca, Frida Kahlo and Maxfield Parrish; as well as comic art legends such as Winsor McCay, Jack Kirby, Frank Frazetta, Alison Bechdel, Chris Ware and R. Crumb; and photographers Gordon Parks, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Dorothea Lange. The museum also includes the Lucas Archives, which contains models, props, concept art and costumes from Lucas’s filmmaking career.
“Stories are mythology, and when illustrated, they help humans understand the mysteries of life,” Lucas said in a statement Wednesday morning. “The museum was built on the belief that illustrated storytelling is a universal language.”
Hobson said, “This is a museum of the people’s art—the images are illustrations of beliefs we live with every day. For that reason, this art belongs to everyone. Our hope is that as people move through the galleries, they will see themselves, and their humanity, reflected back.”
The museum was designed by Ma Yansong of MAD with gardens designed by Mia Lehrer of Studio-MLA. The building also includes two theaters, a library, restaurant, café, retail store and community spaces.
Lucas announced in 2016 that the museum would be located in Los Angeles after previous plans for San Francisco and Chicago fell apart due to community opposition. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on March 14, 2018.
