Lucas Museum tease

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is teasing a new announcement for May 4 as it counts down to a September 22, 2026 opening in Los Angeles. (x.com) The museum’s opening date is already set: September 22, 2026, at Exposition Park in South Los Angeles. George Lucas and Mellody Hobson founded the institution, and the museum says ticketing details for opening week have not been announced yet. (lucasmuseum.org 1) (lucasmuseum.org 2) The project is large even by Los Angeles museum standards. The campus spans 11 acres, the building totals 300,000 square feet, and 35 galleries will occupy 100,000 square feet inside a five-story structure designed by Ma Yansong of MAD, with gardens by Mia Lehrer’s Studio-MLA. (lucasmuseum.org 1) (lucasmuseum.org 2) The museum says it will focus on “narrative art,” meaning images that tell stories across media rather than a single genre or period. Its permanent collection includes more than 40,000 works, from painting and photography to comic art, children’s-book illustration, science-fiction art, and film objects from the Lucas Archives. (lucasmuseum.org 1) (lucasmuseum.org 2) That framing helps explain why a May 4 reveal carries extra weight. May 4 is closely associated with “Star Wars,” and the Lucas Museum already says its archives include props, artwork, and artifacts from the “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” franchises. (lucasmuseum.org) The opening will cap a project that has stretched for more than a decade and changed cities before landing in Los Angeles. ARTnews reported that Lucas and Hobson first explored San Francisco and then Chicago before breaking ground in Los Angeles in 2018. (artnews.com) The schedule has moved before. Artnet reported the museum had once been slated to open in 2022, then faced later delays tied to the pandemic and supply-chain problems before the current 2026 target was announced in November 2025. (news.artnet.com) Los Angeles officials have cast the museum as part of a broader investment in Exposition Park. Mayor Karen Bass said in November 2025 that the museum would add a new cultural landmark to a district that already includes major sports and museum venues. (mayor.lacity.gov) For now, the museum is promising one more beat before opening day. The tease points to May 4; the museum’s own site points to September 22; and the months in between are when it will have to turn a long-delayed building into a public debut. (x.com) (lucasmuseum.org)