Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
Los Angeles • Museum
Conceived by Ma Yansong of MAD Architects as an extension of Exposition Park's tree canopy, the five-story, 27,900-square-meter Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens September 22, 2026 as the centerpiece of Los Angeles's Exposition Park, a few blocks from USC and the LA Memorial Coliseum. The undulating exterior is wrapped in more than 1,500 curved fiberglass-reinforced polymer (FRP) panels — each robotically fabricated and hand-finished — that lift at the building's center to form a sheltered public plaza. Inside are 9,290 sq m of galleries, two state-of-the-art theaters, ten education studios, library, restaurant, museum shop and a rooftop event space beneath a ribbed 'cloud' ceiling. The permanent collection holds more than 40,000 works — Norman Rockwell, Frida Kahlo, Jack Kirby, Gordon Parks, Dorothea Lange — alongside cinematic artifacts. Landscape architecture by Studio-MLA's Mia Lehrer; Stantec serves as executive architect; principal benefactors George Lucas and Mellody Hobson.
