George Lucas’ $1 Billion Museum of Narrative Art Opening Pushed Back to 2025
thewrap.comannounced on Tuesday that the institution, which is now under construction in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park, will open in 2025.
In 2017, Los Angeles won the location sweepstakes over San Francisco for George Lucas’ one-of-a-kind museum, which will house art from films including Lucas’ own “Star Wars,” as well as photography, Renaissance paintings, and ancient Roman mosaics.
When construction began in 2018, it was expected to open in 2022, then was delayed to 2023.Sandra Jackson-Dumont, director and CEO of the museum, shared the “significant progress” already made on the five-story, 300,000-square-foot building, which will be surrounded by a park and gardens on its 11-acre campus.
She also told The Hollywood Reporter that the museum, which will include two 299-seat movie theaters, will house the Lucasfilm archive.“It’s humbling and energizing to see how all aspects of this new public resource are taking shape,” said Jackson-Dumont in a statement on the museum’s site.
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