The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is set to welcome visitors in South Los Angeles's Exposition Park after years of planning and construction. Founded by filmmaker George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, the museum brings together a large collection focused on visual storytelling.
Designed by Ma Yansong and MAD Architects, the five-story building rises as a sculptural landmark on an 11-acre campus shaped with green landscapes by Studio-MLA. The museum's collection spans about 40,000 works, including illustrations, history paintings, comic art, films, murals, and other forms of image-based storytelling.
Inside, the galleries are organized around themes such as Adventure, Romance, Motherhood, Civic Life, Science Fiction, Comics, and Sports. The curatorial approach places artworks from different eras and styles side by side, creating a broad visual conversation about how stories are told through art.
The museum's mission highlights forms of creativity that have often been overlooked in traditional art spaces. By bringing together popular imagery, fine art, and cultural memory under one roof, the institution aims to expand how audiences experience narrative expression. Its opening adds a major new cultural destination to Los Angeles and may help redefine how museums present storytelling in the years ahead.
