Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
| Established | 2014 |
|---|---|
| Location | Los Angeles |
| Type | Art Museum |
| Founder | George Lucas |
| Director | Don Bacigalupi Judy Kim, Dep. Dir. |
| Website | lucasmuseum |
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is a museum project in development by film creator and director, George Lucas. It will hold paintings, photography, illustration, cinematic art and digital art from Lucas's personal collection. It will be located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles California.
The museum will house works by artists such as Howard Chandler Christy, N.C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, and Norman Rockwell.
The first president of the museum is Don Bacigalupi, former president of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.
To be known as the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum, it was originally planned for San Francisco, on Crissy Field. This version of the museum would have held Lucas's art collection, which is estimated to be worth approximately $1 billion. After four years of negotiation with The Presidio Trust over the land in San Francisco, Lucas announced instead that Chicago would host the museum, due in part to interest from the city's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, and the promise of land on the shore of Lake Michigan. The museum would lease the land from the Chicago Park District for $1 a year.Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti also made a bid to host the project, offering Lucas land in Exposition Park near the University of Southern California.Youngstown Mayor John McNally has also proposed to Lucas to locate the museum in Youngstown, Ohio offering donated land in the city's downtown.
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