George Lucas’ Museum to Open in September 2026
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Dedicated to the ‘Universal Language’ of Illustrated Storytelling, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is located on an 11-acre campus in Los Angeles' Exposition Park.
Filmmaker George Lucas, the mind behind the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, has been working to build his museum for more than a decade. According to a statement, its 35 galleries - filled with comic art, illustrations, murals and movie posters - will debut on 22 September 2026. “This is a museum of the people’s art - the images are illustrations of beliefs we live with every day,” says museum co-founder Mellody Hobson, Lucas’ wife. “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 more than 40,000 items in the museum’s permanent collection include 20th- and 21st-century murals, illustrations from children’s books and science fiction, film artifacts, and comic art, “of which the museum has deep and extensive holdings.”
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When opening day finally arrives, visitors will be able to enjoy work by artists like book illustrator Maxfield Parrish and American artist Norman Rockwell, plus Alex Raymond’s first character drawing for the Flash Gordon comics from 1934 and original Peanuts sketches by Charles Schulz from the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the collection’s cinematic artifacts, as you would expect, come from Star Wars and other famous films from Lucas’ career.
Earlier this year, Lucas told an audience at Comic-Con in San Diego: “I’ve worked with hundreds of illustrators in my life, and they’re all brilliant; they’re all great. But they don’t get recognized for anything. So, [the Lucas Museum] is sort of a temple to the people’s art.”
The building’s 100,000 square feet of exhibition space will be divided into galleries named “to reflect the human experience,” such as “love, family, community, play, work, sports, childhood, adventure and more,” according to the museum.