Lucas Museum in Los Angeles postpones opening to 2025

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles has delayed its opening again as construction continues, Report informs referring to The Hollywood Reporter.

After previously pushing its planned launch from 2022 to 2023, the Los Angeles-based museum that is founded by filmmaker George Lucas and wife Mellody Hobson announced on September 20 that its targeted opening has now been delayed by another two years.

The museum, currently slated to open in 2025 at Exposition Park, will feature a five-story, 300,000-square-foot building on an 11-acre campus that includes a surrounding park and gardens.

Director and CEO Sandra Jackson-Dumont emphasized that the facility, featuring a focus on all forms of narrative art rather than solely displaying movie memorabilia, will mix both high-brow and mass-produced work.

She also shared that the museum, which will include two 299-seat movie theaters, will house the Lucasfilm archive.