The long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open its doors next year – LAist
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Published Nov 12, 2025 12:20 PM
The long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open its doors next year
The long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open its doors next year. The Exposition Park campus will open to the public Sept. 22.Topline:
The long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Exposition Park is set to open on Sept. 22, officials announced on Wednesday.
More about the museum: The museum will house 35 galleries across 100,000 square feet. The museum’s permanent collection encompasses more than 40,000 works. Officials said the space will house one of the most significant collections of narrative art.
What artists are included? The Lucas Museum’s collection features works by Norman Rockwell, Kadir Nelson, Frida Kahlo, Maxfield Parrish and others. Comic art creators, including Winsor McCay, Frank Frazetta and Chris Ware, will also be featured. The museum also houses models, props, concept art and costumes from museum co-founder George Lucas’s filmmaking career.
Officials said: “This is a museum of the people’s art—the images are illustrations of beliefs we live with every day. For that reason, this art belongs to everyone,” Lucas Museum co-founder Mellody Hobson said in a statement. “Our hope is that as people move through the galleries, they will see themselves, and their humanity, reflected back.”
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