{"id":229934,"date":"2025-10-16T21:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229934\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:22:07","slug":"george-lucas-knows-you-freaks-want-some-star-wars-at-his-big-new-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229934\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lucas Knows You Freaks Want Some ‘Star Wars’ at His Big New Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art<\/a> is not a Star Wars museum. George Lucas<\/a> is adamant about that. But imagine the riots if the state-of-the-art showplace<\/a> opened and contained not one scrap of the galaxy far, far away? Even Palpatine wouldn\u2019t dare pull a troll on that level, and Lucas himself is very aware of the optics.<\/p>\n

In a new interview the Wall Street Journal<\/a> conducted with Lucas and his wife and collaborator Mellody Hobson, the outlet described the Lucas Museum as spotlighting \u201ca sprawling lineage of artists that the filmmaker feels deep kinship with, from Stone Age cave painters to masters of futuristic fantasy,\u201d including \u201ca collection Lucas started 60 years ago with the comic art he could afford in college. Among the 40,000-plus pieces are 160 works by Norman Rockwell, whose vignettes of American life are the epitome of narrative art for Lucas.\u201d<\/p>\n

The galleries are arranged \u201caround themes like family, love, work, and play, with artworks that explore the myths and stories that bind society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like, say, the stories of Star Wars, which have certainly united (and just as often divided) fans for decades?<\/p>\n

After noting that Lucas is the museum\u2019s curator (\u201cEarlier\u00a0this year, the experienced museum director who\u2019d been hired to oversee curation stepped down after Lucas opted to do the job himself\u201d), the WSJ reported that \u201cone inaugural exhibit will feature the designs of Star Wars vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yep, just the one so far. We did know there\u2019d be a Naboo Starfighter<\/a> on hand, among other Lucas-adjacent pop culture items\u2014but apparently, we\u2019re lucky to be getting any Star Wars at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one gallery out of 33. And I did it grudgingly,\u201d Lucas explained.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s because he\u2019s no dummy: \u201cI didn\u2019t want people to come to the museum and say, \u2018Where\u2019s the Star Wars?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

You can learn more about the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art at its official website<\/a>, which does not yet list a specific opening date other than 2026.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is not a Star Wars museum. George Lucas is adamant about that.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,12472,13764,206,5295],"class_list":["post-229934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-george-lucas","tag-lucas-museum-of-narrative-art","tag-movies","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}