Billion-Dollar George Lucas Museum Will Open In Los Angeles Next Year

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Topline George Lucas, the billionaire filmmaker behind massive franchises like “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones,” set an opening date of September 2026 for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a Los Angeles museum that will boast thousands of famous artworks and archival items from Lucas’s filmmaking career. A drone view of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. (Photo by Eric Thayer/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Key Facts The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art reportedly cost $1 billion, which Lucas funded, including the costs of construction, his art and an endowment of at least $400 million, according to the Los Angeles Times. The museum will open to the public on Sept. 22, 2026, it announced Wednesday afternoon, more than a decade after Lucas first pitched the idea of constructing an art museum. The art museum will span 300,000 square feet and house more than 40,000 works in its permanent collection, according to a press release, including works by artists like Norman Rockwell, Frida Kahlo and Beatrix Potter. Costumes, props, concept art and more works from Lucas’s films will also be housed in the museum, and although the release did not note which films would be represented, Lucas is best known for writing, directing and producing the “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” franchises, as well as the Oscar-nominated “American Graffiti.” The museum will span 35 galleries, two theaters, a library, restaurant, retail store and green space in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park. The museum features a futuristic design and has drawn comparisons to a spacecraft, and architect Kush Parekh, who worked on the project, previously told the Los Angeles Times the design was inspired by “landscapes of myths and movies” and taking visitors on a “journey through space.” Key Background Lucas reportedly first…