Lucas Museum to Open September 22, 2026

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a $1 billion project founded by filmmaker George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, will open to the public on September 22, 2026, in Los Angeles' Exposition Park.

The announcement, made Wednesday, marks the latest milestone for the institution after more than a decade of planning and construction delays. The 300,000-square-foot, five-story building, designed by Ma Yansong of MAD Architects, features a futuristic, spaceship-like structure that appears to float above the ground with no right angles. Set on an 11-acre campus adjacent to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, it includes landscaped gardens and walkways designed by Mia Lehrer of Studio-MLA, along with a rooftop terrace offering panoramic city views.

The museum focuses on illustrated storytelling as a universal language, housing a permanent collection of more than 40,000 works curated by the 81-year-old Lucas. These include illustrations, comics, paintings, photographs, sculptures, moving images, and film memorabilia from artists such as Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, Kadir Nelson, Jessie Willcox Smith, Beatrix Potter, Judith F. Baca, Frida Kahlo, Winsor...