AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - George Lucas's $1 billion museum in Los Angeles finally set to open after 16 years
George Lucas spent five decades collecting art and memorabilia, and now his massive, spaceship-shaped museum in Los Angeles is scheduled to open its doors on September 22, more than 16 years after the project began. The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will sprawl across 28,000 square meters, roughly 300,000 square feet, with five floors, 30 […] The post George Lucas's $1 billion museum in Los Angeles finally set to open after 16 years appeared first on American Almanac .
George Lucas spent five decades collecting art and memorabilia, and now his massive, spaceship-shaped museum in Los Angeles is scheduled to open its doors on September 22, more than 16 years after the project began. The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will sprawl across 28,000 square meters, roughly 300,000 square feet, with five floors, 30 galleries, and more than 1,300 objects on display. The building itself, with its curved white walls, looks like something pulled from a science-fiction set. Two cinematic theaters sit inside. More than 200 trees surround the grounds outside. The Sun reported the project carries a price tag of roughly £740 million, north of $900 million at current exchange rates. For a filmmaker who built an empire on…Open
