collection of 1,200 works of illustration<\/a>, selected personally by Lucas from a pool of roughly 40,000 pieces. <\/p>\nUnusually for a museum, the focus is not traditional fine art hierarchy but storytelling imagery in all its forms. Well-known oil works by artists such as Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell sit alongside comic strips, manga, movie concept art, and fantasy scenes populated by dragons, kings, and everyday archetypes. The result is not the usual museum chronology of art history but rather a map of human myths.<\/p>\n
Cinematic scale and design<\/p>\n
There are two 299-seat movie theaters that stand as some of the finest screening spaces in America. The building unfolds across five floors, with Caleb Deschanel, a six-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer, helping to shape the lighting so that each gallery feels less like a static display and more like a filmed scene, carefully exposed and emotionally tuned.<\/p>\n
An accessible library for everyone<\/p>\n
The museum\u2019s library will be accessible even without a museum ticket, making it one of the institution\u2019s most community-focused spaces. Children aged 12 and older will also be able to visit on their own. This was a detail that was especially important to Mellody Hobson. Growing up in Chicago, Hobson often spent hours at her local library, which she has described as a refuge and a place of possibility. <\/p>\n
Her experiences as a child helped shape the museum\u2019s vision for the space as an open, welcoming resource where young people can explore, learn, and discover stories for themselves, regardless of whether they enter the museum galleries. <\/p>\n
In many ways, the library reflects the museum\u2019s larger mission \u2013 making storytelling, creativity, and cultural exploration accessible to everyone. From its sweeping architectural forms to its meticulously staged interiors, everything reinforces Lucas\u2019s long-held belief that stories are how humans make sense of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mario Tama via Getty Images Inside the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, George Lucas and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,6049],"class_list":["post-696776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-museums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696776","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=696776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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