George's museum - the 'Lucas Museum of Narrative Art' (in LA, set to open in 2022)

The ‘Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’ is scheduled to open in 2022, and from the Vanity Fair article below, seems there were a few issues on a location before settling on LA - and breaking ground in 2018.
 

There will be a ‘Star Wars exhibit’ at the museum - though it may likely have a large empty space for where the unaltered theatrical version of the Original Trilogy films were for 20 years… (before they stopped existing in George’s eyes) - next to the various incarnations of the Special Editions which replaced them?

Such a space likely won’t be in the ‘Film Preservation’ section on the museum - as to not confuse anyone questioning why Lucas sits on the boards of a few film preservation groups; yet won’t preserve or release the classic original version of his own three films which made Star Wars what it is (and also underpins much of his own work since).
 

Having said that, it does look a cool building design 😃 (more images of it can be found in the articles below) and will hopefully feature some cool and rarely seen ‘bits and pieces’ from the various films and projects he has been involved with.
 

A few articles on the ‘Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’:-

• George Lucas Strikes Back: Inside the Fight to Build the Lucas Museum - at Vanity Fair
• Construction Launches for George Lucas’ L.A. Museum at Groundbreaking Ceremony - at Variety
• The Force was strong in LA as ‘Star Wars’ creator George Lucas launched his Narrative Art museum - at Daily News
• What Is a ‘Narrative Art Museum’? 6 Things to Expect From George Lucas’s New LA Museum - at ArtNet News
• Seven Things You Didn’t Know About the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art - at Discover Los Angeles
 

Website: https://lucasmuseum.org | Twitter: www.twitter.com/lucasmuseum | Facebook: www.facebook.com/lucasmuseum
 

^ happy as ever 😉 (did George lose a bet and is now no longer allowed to smile for photographs?)

apologies mods if there is already a thread on the George’s museum? I couldn’t find one earlier, but if there is please delete or merge this if possible? TIA.

Good idea for thread, V.I.N.Cent. As you say, it’ll certainly be interesting to see if it features any rarely seen ‘bits and pieces’ from his film and tv projects.

And also how content on his preservation work for films… conflates with the lack of preservation for a certain Star Wars trilogy he was quite heavily involved with 😉
 

I just want to go to this thing, been hearing about it for the longest time. Too bad he couldn’t build it in Chicago like he wanted, but Lucas is no doubt a big picture guy and if you’ve ever been to any good art museum anywhere ever there’s really stellar things that can be done with that space to build an experience. Love the design concept for the building now let me go inside!

Looks like a riff on the Starship Voyager 😉
 

George will be promoting the new museum, scheduled to open in 2026, in his first ever Comic-Con appearance later today…
 

oojason said:

Looks like a riff on the Starship Voyager 😉
 

George will be promoting the new museum, scheduled to open in 2026, in his first ever Comic-Con appearance later today…
 

George is getting up in front of a live Comic Con audience???

I hope there’s a Q&A and I hope Connor Ratliff is there

timdiggerm said:

oojason said:

Looks like a riff on the Starship Voyager 😉
 

George will be promoting the new museum, scheduled to open in 2026, in his first ever Comic-Con appearance later today…
 

George is getting up in front of a live Comic Con audience???

I hope there’s a Q&A and I hope Connor Ratliff is there

Ha, we can only wish.

I’m guessing it’ll likely be a talk - followed by a few pre-approved questions asked by a moderator/presenter?
 

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/george-lucas-museum-of-narrative-art-comic-con-first-look-1236471545
 

'After breaking ground in 2018, Hall H got its first look at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art before it’s set to open its futuristic doors in 2026. With a personal collection from George Lucas’s 50-year art archive, the museum is set to feature artwork and never-before-seen pieces from Norman Rockwell, Frida Kahlo, Jessie Willcox Smith and more. The panel was moderated by Queen Latifah, with Guillermo del Toro and Doug Chiang as panelists.

It’s been a long time coming for the Lucas Museum since it was first announced. In 2016, the museum was initially set to begin construction in Chicago near Lake Michigan. After a Chicago-based organization named “Friends of the Parks” filed a lawsuit over the construction on private land, the museum selected Los Angeles as its official building site near Exposition Park.

“I’ve been doing this for 50 years now, and then it occurred to me that I don’t know what I am going to do with [all the art] because I refuse to sell it,” Lucas said at his first San Diego Comic-Con appearance. “Art is more about an emotional connection. Not how much it cost, or what celebrity made it. If you have an emotional connection, then it’s art. I’ve worked with hundreds of illustrators in my life, and they’re all brilliant, but they don’t get recognized for anything. This museum is a temple to the people.”

The history of LucasFilm at San Diego Comic-Con has existed for over 50 years, with the first “Star Wars” having a panel during the 1976 iteration of the convention. Fans who attended the event got to see still images from “A New Hope,” where Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin discussed artwork from “Star Wars.”

“It’s one thing that this kind of art [featured] will celebrate because of science fiction. Science fiction is a myth, but we have made it real,” revealed Lucas about the museum’s science fiction artworks set to be displayed. “Humans made it real because of science fiction books and art that makes people say, ‘Oh, we could go to the moon,’ and once that idea is implemented, then we believe we could do it.”’

A few more similar articles…

www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/george-lucas-first-comic-con-appearance-1235141385
https://deadline.com/2025/07/comic-con-george-lucas-guillermo-del-toro-lucas-museum-of-narrative-art-1236471055
https://gizmodo.com/a-life-size-naboo-starfighter-will-be-among-the-highlights-of-george-lucas-new-museum-2000635731
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/george-lucas-makes-comic-con-debut-museum-first-look-1236330547
 

A 45 minute video of the ‘George Lucas Museum Panel’ (George Lucas, Guillermo del Toro and Doug Chiang) at SDCC:2025…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=25g-ekjgAsM