George Lucas's Museum of Narrative Art opened to the public in Los Angeles
George Lucas's long-awaited Museum of Narrative Art opened its doors to the public this week in Los Angeles, more than a decade after the Star Wars creator first announced plans for an institution devoted to storytelling across illustration, comics, film, and popular art. The museum's collection spans centuries of narrative image-making, from Norman Rockwell paintings to comic-book original art to film costumes and props, reflecting Lucas's own stated belief that illustration and 'popular' visual storytelling deserve the same institutional weight traditionally reserved for fine art. The opening caps a project that weathered years of delays, site changes, and construction setbacks since it was first proposed, and it gives Los Angeles a major new cultural institution built entirely around the idea that the images that shape how ordinary people understand stories — not just what hangs in traditional fine-art museums — belong in a museum of their own.
