What to KnowLucas Museum of Narrative ArtExposition ParkOpens Sept. 22, 2026The museum announced on May 4 that is first Cinema exhibition will be “Star Wars in Motion”; May 4 is observed as May the Fourth or “Star Wars Day” by many fansSeveral eye-catching props and pieces from the first six films of the “Star Wars” saga, including “the first physical build of General Grievious’s Wheel Bike from ‘Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith'” will be on view

Things in the “Star Wars”-verse, from gargantuan ships to diminutive droids, are perpetually on the go from the get-go.

This exhilarating forward momentum started with the storied scroll that begins “Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope” and kept the velocity juiced through every X-wing starfighter spin, sunbaked Landspeeder journey, and the Millennium Falcon’s thrilling jump to lightspeed.

Now a new exhibition, the inaugural Cinema exhibition at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, will pay powerful, pedal-to-the-metal homage to “Star Wars in Motion,” with a large-scale look at some of the saga’s stellar spacecraft and planetary wheels.

The rev-it-up show will “… transport Museum visitors to a galaxy far, far away through a selection of visionary vehicle designs, props, costumes, and illustrations from across the first six films of George Lucas’s saga, featuring a wide range of high-speed racers, hulking transport vehicles, and flying vessels,” shared the museum team.

Look for “the first physical build of General Grievious’s Wheel Bike from ‘Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith'” and Luke’s Landspeeder, too, that “Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope” icon.

A video celebrating “Star Wars in Motion” was released May 4, 2026 in honor of “Star Wars Day,” the occasion when we most gladly and joyfully wish Jedi near and far benedictions filled with Force and felicity.

Check out the teaser now, then plan to put your own pedal to the metal — or, more wisely, observe all posted earthly speed limits, or, better yet, take Metro — as you make for Exposition Park and the opening of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in late September.

A rousing “Punch it, Chewie!” seems to be the enthusiastic order of the day here, especially if you’re an enthusiast with a penchant for the mechanically marvelous move-forward moxie of the “Star Wars” universe.

Doug Chiang, “Podrace Crash,” production art for “Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace” (detail) 1995-99. Digital print. Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, REP2025.8.2. © & ™ Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved