Overview
- The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which detailed its first program Thursday, will open with more than 1,200 objects across 30-plus galleries curated by Lucas.
- Only one gallery focuses on Star Wars props and designs, while most rooms explore themes and artists across comics, manga and anime, murals, photography, and illustration.
- The shows draw from a founding collection of over 40,000 works, including the Lucas Archives and a trove on African American film history known as the Separate Cinema Archive.
- The museum occupies a 300,000-square-foot building in Exposition Park designed by Ma Yansong of MAD with an 11-acre park by landscape architect Mia Lehrer.
- The lineup follows years of delays, costs rising toward about $1 billion, and 2025 staff exits and layoffs that left Lucas in charge of the museum’s curatorial direction.