With a price tag of an estimated $1.5bn, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has taken a long but steady journey from concept to completion, bringing to Los Angeles what will surely be high on the list of must-visit Lucas related locations, and we have an update to that long-awaited ribbon-cutting ceremony. The museum will now be opening its doors to the public for the first time in 2026, which means that while the opening is still over a year away we can confidently say that the build, the project and its completion is in the home stretch.
As the first museum to focus exclusively on storytelling through images, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art™ believes that visual storytelling can connect us. With a growing collection that encompasses artworks from across cultures, places, times, and mediums, including paintings, sculptures, murals, photography, comic art, book and magazine illustrations, and the arts of filmmaking, the Lucas Museum will explore narrative art’s potential to inspire community and move people to think about the impact of images on our world.
Co-founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson and led by director and CEO Sandra Jackson-Dumont, the Lucas Museum was designed by renowned architect Ma Yansong of MAD Architects with Stantec as executive architect and will open in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park in 2026. An 11-acre campus with extensive new green space designed by Studio-MLA will embrace the museum’s 300,000-square-foot building, which will feature expansive galleries, two state-of-the-art theaters, and dedicated spaces for learning and engagement, dining, retail, and events.
