Named the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, this new art destination in Los Angeles opened its doors to the public on September 22, 2026. Its long birth process started in the late 1990s when George Lucas’s original concept placed the museum’s location in San Francisco and later in Chicago. Neither location panned out. In 2018, construction started in southeastern LA, close to the existing city landmarks of the Coliseum stadium and the Natural History Museum.

The meeting with George Lucas’s creative mind starts long before you arrive at the gates of his new museum. You are confronted with a building that is huge, ovoid, and white—something that is reminiscent of a joystick or a modern appliance but most closely resembles a spaceship. The last impression is the most appropriate, despite the statement of the museum’s architect, Ma Yansong, who was quoted that the form of his remarkable white Möbius strip simply “comes from an interest in something fluid and unfamiliar.” But to anyone who has ever seen a sci-fi movie—to a great extent thanks to George Lucas himself—these sinuous forms are most suggestive of a flying spaceship.

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