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The Lucas Museum is the second museum to arrive in Los Angeles in 2026.
The Lucas Museum's central plaza is a four-story-high, 185-foot-wide arching gateway and oculus.
The Guggenheim Museum promoted the mystic healing powers of Wassily Kandinsky, Bach organ chorales, and incense.
The Lucas Museum's exterior is clad with 1,271 fiberglass-reinforced polymer panels manufactured by a shipbuilding company in the Bay Area.
The Chicago museum project was halted by a lawsuit from a nonprofit parks preservation group.
After the San Francisco proposal failed, George Lucas and Mellody Hobson hired Ma Yansong to design a museum for a lakefront site in Chicago.
A proposal to build the Lucas Museum on Treasure Island in the Bay Area also failed, after which the project moved to Los Angeles.
Los Angeles is home to the Getty, the Huntington, the Norton Simon, the Hammer, and the Broad museums.
In 2010, George Lucas and Mellody Hobson first proposed building their museum at the Presidio in San Francisco.
The Lucas Museum is architect Ma Yansong's first major American cultural commission.
George Lucas's art collection grew to over 40,000 works, including pieces by artists such as Frida Kahlo and Thomas Hart Benton.
A yellow Naboo N-1 Starfighter is suspended from the lobby ceiling of the museum's library pavilion.
A separate pavilion at the Lucas Museum contains a library with Arts and Crafts furnishings and a student center.
The Lucas Museum is located across the street from the University of Southern California campus, where George Lucas studied film.
George Lucas acquired his first artwork, a V.T. Hamlin 'Alley Oop' comic, in the 1970s.
The 300,000-square-foot Lucas Museum was designed by architect Ma Yansong to house the art collection of George Lucas and Mellody Hobson.
The Lucas Museum has over 80,000 square feet of exhibition space on its fourth floor, which includes a 'Star Wars' display with Luke Skywalker’s X-34 Landspeeder.
The Lucas Museum contains two movie theaters, a shop, and a cafe.
The Lucas Museum has rooms devoted to Norman Rockwell paintings and manga art, as well as themes of motherhood and love.
George Lucas and Mellody Hobson paid over $1 billion for the Lucas Museum project.