Overview

• At 81, Lucas attended Comic-Con in San Diego for the first time to present his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art project.
• The five-story museum, designed by Ma Yansong, broke ground in 2018 on Los Angeles’s Exposition Park site.
• Lucas describes the institution as a "temple for the art of the people," prioritizing emotional connection over a work’s fame or price.
• More than 40,000 pieces from his private collection—including comics, film art objects and paintings by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell—will form the core exhibits.
• He has pledged to self-fund over $1 billion in construction and operating costs ahead of the museum’s opening in 2026.