More than seven years after construction began, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art announced on Wednesday it will open to the public on Sept. 22, 2026.

Construction on the $1 billion museum , founded by filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, began in March 2018 in Exposition Park .

The 300,000-square-foot, five-story building is expected to house works by artists including Norman Rockwell, Kadir Nelson, Jessie Willcox Smith, N.C. Wyeth, Beatrix Potter, Judy Baca, Frida Kahlo, and Maxfield Parrish; as well as comic art notables such as Winsor McCay, Jack Kirby, Frank Frazetta, Alison Bechdel, Chris Ware, and R. Crumb; and photographers Gordon Parks, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Dorothea Lange. The museum will also house the Lucas Archives, containing models, props, concept ar

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