George Lucas ("Star Wars") has chosen the city in which his long-awaited idea for a museum of "narrative art" will find a home. Long negotiations with the leadership of Chicago and San Francisco led the creator of "Star Wars" to choose Los Angeles. The city will receive more than 10,000 objects collected during George Lucas' 40-year creative period. The museum will open doors to the boundless world of modern visual art and provide people with the opportunity to immerse themselves in it.
The unique design of the building by Chinese architect Ma Yansong is a true urban art and undoubtedly the residents of Los Angeles will be proud of such a project in their city. In addition to places for relaxation and dreaming, the museum will house a gallery with many souvenirs from the Star Wars series, a library, large conference rooms for education and seminars, rooms for visual technologies and practices. Paintings by Edgar Degas, Winslow Homer and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, installations, cinematic objects, comics and new digital innovations will capture the imagination of people passionate about art.
Lucas' team said that with more than 100 schools in the city, three major world-class museums and the University of Southern California, Exposition Park is the perfect location for this futuristic building. The cultural and educational landscape in this part of the city predisposes the new museum to be right in the middle. The cost of the project is more than $ 1 billion and will be fully financed by the world-famous director, without spending a single penny from taxpayers. The mayor of Los Angeles called the Lucas Museum "the greatest gift to society in American history."
There is still much to learn about the museum of "narrative art" as it will not open its doors until 2021, but one thing is clear - the museum will be like no other ever built.
