Lucas Museum to Open With 30 Galleries, 1,200 Objects
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- Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open Sept. 22 in Los Angeles, co-founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, with 1,200-plus objects spread across 30-plus galleries and roughly 100,000 square feet.
- "Star Wars in Motion" will serve as the museum's inaugural Cinema exhibition, drawing on the Lucas Archives to display vehicle designs, props, costumes, and illustrations from the first six Star Wars films — including Luke's Landspeeder and the first physical build of General Grievous' Wheel Bike.
- Themed exhibitions on love, family, community, and adventure will be paired with artist-focused galleries featuring works by Jack Kirby, Frank Miller, Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, Frank Frazetta, Maxfield Parrish, Thomas Hart Benton, and Beatrix Potter, among others.
- The collection traces the evolution of human storytelling from ancient sculptures of gods and goddesses through Renaissance paintings to photography, comics, manga and anime, and modern cinema.
- Comics and graphic-story galleries will include American and European work by Moebius, Marie Severin, Alison Bechdel, Jim Lee, and Rafael Navarro, while a Manga/Anime section spotlights influential Japanese illustration and animation.
- Photography holdings feature documentary images by Robert Capa, Gordon Parks, Alfred Eisenstaedt, and Dorothea Lange, and a Murals section includes large-scale public works by Judith F. Baca, Diego Rivera, and JR.
Why it matters: At roughly 100,000 square feet and 30-plus galleries, the Lucas Museum immediately enters the top tier of L.A. cultural institutions, and by leaning on the Lucas Archives for its flagship Star Wars exhibition, it turns a private collection into a public draw that could pull Lucas- and comic-kingdom fans alongside traditional fine-art audiences on day one.
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