Billion-Dollar Art Museum Founded By Filmmaker George Lucas Sets September 2026 Opening
The $1 billion museum will showcase 40,000 works in 35 galleries, including art and items from George Lucas’s film career, with a public park featuring over 200 new trees.
- This Wednesday, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art announced it will open to the public on Sept. 22, 2026, leaving a little more than 10 months to finish work and install the collection.
- After breaking ground in 2018, the museum originally aimed to open in 2021 but pandemic and supply issues pushed the date from 2021 to 2023, then 2025, and finally 2026.
- The building, designed by Ma Yansong of MAD Architects, is a 300,000-square-foot, five-story structure housing 35 galleries and over 40,000 works plus the Lucas Archives.
- The museum’s 11-acre campus includes a public park open from sunrise to sunset, while Oak View Group was named exclusive hospitality partner and questions arose after 15 employees laid off, about 14% of full-time staff.
- Visitors can expect a three-level research library with curved-wood balconies, a main lobby with three glass elevators, and a rooftop garden with unannounced entry points.
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Long-delayed George Lucas museum finally gets an opening date
(KRON) -- After years of delays, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art announced that it will open to the public on Sept. 22, 2026 in Exposition Park in Los Angeles. The 100,000 square feet museum, co-founded by “Star Wars” director George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, contains 35 galleries housing more than 40,000 works of narrative art. ‘The Good Place’ star Jameela Jamil reportedly slams AI actress Tilly Norwood The museum will display mural…
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens on September 22, 2026 at Exposition Park; the museum's work costs $1 billion
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, founded by George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, will open on September 22, 2026.
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