Los Angeles Wins Bid for Lucas Museum

The force is strong with Los Angeles, future home to the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. The Board of Directors had appear plans to build the Lucas Museum in Exposition Park in LA's Exhibition Park.

"We take been humbled by the overwhelmingly positive support we received from both San Francisco and Los Angeles during our selection process," the Board said. "Settling on a location proved to exist an extremely difficult determination precisely because of the desirability of both sites and cities."

Located in S Los Angeles'south Promise Zone, a recent federal designation aimed at reducing poverty, Exhibition Park already houses three 'world-class' museums: the California Science Center, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and the California African American Museum.

"As a museum uniquely focused on narrative art, we look forward to becoming part of a dynamic museum community," according to the Board of Directors, a group that includes Pixar Chief Creative Officer, John Lasseter.

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles

Designed with the expertise and critical middle of Ma Yansong from MAD Architects in Beijing, the gallery is expected to include hush-hush parking for 1,800 vehicles and vi to seven acres of additional dark-green space. Inside the 265,000- to 275,000sqft building, visitors will exist invited to traverse up to 100,000sqft of showrooms.

The not-profit museum celebrates the power of visual storytelling via narrative painting, illustration, photography, pic, animation, and digital art; look for original, artist-fabricated creations—from sketches and storyboards to motion picture sets and costumes. Folks tin likewise sit in on daily picture show screenings, attend pic premieres, watch public lectures, and join hands-on workshops.

"Now nosotros turn our attention to finalising the details and building what nosotros believe will be ane of the most imaginative and inclusive art museums in the world—a global destination that all Angelenos and Californians will be proud to call their ain," the media announcement added.

"No one benefits from continuing their [Friends of the Parks'] seemingly unending litigation to protect a parking lot," museum founder and chairman George Lucas said in a statement over the summer.

There is no discussion on when the new hall will open up.