{"id":132259,"date":"2025-11-13T03:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/132259\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T03:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:15:07","slug":"the-long-awaited-lucas-museum-of-narrative-art-will-open-its-doors-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/132259\/","title":{"rendered":"The long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open its doors next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open its doors next year<\/p>\n<p>The Exposition Park campus will open to the public Sept. 22.<\/p>\n<p>Topline:<\/p>\n<p>More about the museum: The museum will house 35 galleries across 100,000 square feet. The museum\u2019s permanent collection encompasses more than 40,000 works. Officials said the space will house one of the most significant collections of narrative art.<\/p>\n<p>What artists are included? The Lucas Museum\u2019s collection features works by Norman Rockwell, Kadir Nelson, Frida Kahlo, Maxfield Parrish and others. Comic art creators, including Winsor McCay, Frank Frazetta and Chris Ware, will also be featured. The museum also houses models, props, concept art and costumes from museum co-founder George Lucas\u2019s filmmaking career.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said: \u201cThis is a museum of the people\u2019s art\u2014the images are illustrations of beliefs we live with every day. For that reason, this art belongs to everyone,\u201d Lucas Museum co-founder Mellody Hobson said in a statement. \u201cOur hope is that as people move through the galleries, they will see themselves, and their humanity, reflected back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dig Deeper \u2026<br \/>\n    <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/shows\/take-two\/even-if-its-not-the-art-youre-looking-for-the-lucas-museum-aims-to-please\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">into the Lucas Museum\u2019s vision<\/a><br \/>\n    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open its doors next year The Exposition Park campus will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,90888,90886,90887,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-132259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-exposition-park","tag-lucas-museum","tag-narrative-art","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}