Los Angeles (dpa) “Star Wars” creator George Lucas wants to open his long-planned museum in Los Angeles in September 2026. The “Lucas Museum of Narrative Art” includes a collection of more than 40,000 works of art, he said in a statement. The core comes from the “Indiana Jones” producer’s personal collection. In addition to many film art objects, photographs and comic drawings, it also includes paintings by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell.
This museum is being built in the film metropolis of Los Angeles. The foundation stone for the five-story building based on a futuristic design by Chinese architect Ma Yansong was laid in 2018.
In 2012, Lucas sold his San Francisco-based film studio to the Disney Group for approximately $4 billion. A year later, the legendary director, producer and screenwriter announced plans for a museum. Occasionally, Chicago and San Francisco are also discussed as possible locations.
Long term passion project
At the Comic-Con convention in San Diego last July, Lucas talked about the project he’s passionate about. The filmmaker says he has collected around 40,000 works of art since he was a student, including comics he could afford at the time. He saw the museum as a kind of “temple” for popular art. Lucas, who lives in Northern California, plans to finance construction and operating costs of more than $1 billion out of his own pocket.
