Imagine opening a museum and your guest list casually includes some of the biggest filmmakers and celebrities on Earth.
That’s basically what happened when George Lucas finally unveiled the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles.
And despite being created by the man behind Star Wars, this isn’t just a giant temple to lightsabers, Darth Vader and the Millennium Falcon.
The museum is dedicated to visual storytelling in almost every form imaginable, from paintings and photography to comics, illustration, murals and cinema.
It’s also massive.
The futuristic building covers around 300,000 square feet, with roughly 100,000 square feet dedicated to gallery space, all sitting inside a new 13-acre campus.
Lucas created the museum alongside Mellody Hobson around one big idea: storytelling deserves to be treated as serious art, whether it comes from a famous painting, a comic book or a movie poster.
Basically, the man who spent decades creating fictional worlds has now built a very real one dedicated entirely to them.
And yes, it looks appropriately sci-fi.
