The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art confirmed that it’s on track for a grand opening to the public on September 22, 2026. Founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, the new cultural institution in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park will feature thirty-five galleries that occupy 100,000 square foot space.

Here’s what we know so far about the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.

The Lucas Museum promises to explore how stories connect people and capture the human experience. The museum was built on the belief that illustrated storytelling is a universal language.

The permanent collection holds more than 40,000 works, representing one of the most significant collections of narrative art featuring works by artists such as Norman Rockwell, Kadir Nelson, Jessie Willcox Smith, N. C. Wyeth, Beatrix Potter, Judith F. Baca, Frida Kahlo, and Maxfield Parrish; comic art legends such as Winsor McCay, Jack Kirby, Frank Frazetta, Alison Bechdel, Chris Ware, and Robert Crumb; and photographers Gordon Parks, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Dorothea Lange. The museum also houses the Lucas Archives, containing models, props, concept art, and costumes from Lucas’s filmmaking career.

The building’s thirty-five galleries occupy 100,000 square feet. Galleries are named to reflect the human experience—love, family, community, play, work, sports, childhood, adventure, and more. They will display familiar pieces by beloved illustrators; mural paintings of the 20th and 21st centuries; comic art, of which the museum has deep and extensive holdings; children’s book illustrations; science-fiction illustrations; and the fantastic visions captured in 20th-century culture. The museum will also display cinematic artifacts, including movie posters, and show documentaries featuring artists and filmmakers.

Designed by Ma Yansong of MAD with a landscape by Mia Lehrer of Studio-MLA and Stantec as executive architect, the museum is in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, on an 11-acre campus that includes new green space and a 300,000-square-foot building with galleries, two theaters, a library, restaurant, café, retail store, and community spaces.

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Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park on September 22, 2026.

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