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Concept
designs for the
exciting new
museum.

This Collection Belongs in a Museum

Plans for George Lucas’ museum are approved by the L.A. City Council

he Los Angeles City Council experience a collection of fi ne and The museum project is expected
T has unanimously voted to popular art—much of which comes to generate more than 1,500
approve the Lucas Museum
construction jobs and more than
from Lucas’ personal collection—
of Narrative Art. The as well as attend motion-picture 350 permanent jobs. The museum’s
council’s 14-0 vote followed a report screenings and other exhibitions anticipated $1 billion price tag will
on the museum’s environmental highlighting the power of visual be paid in full by the Lucas family.
impact as well as remarks from storytelling and tracing the In a statement issued when it was
museum founder George Lucas, who evolution of art and, specifi cally, the announced that the museum would
was joined at the council meeting by art of moving images. be built in Los Angeles, the museum’s
his wife and museum board member, In a statement on the museum’s board said: “Now we turn our

Mellody Hobson. Building work for website, Lucas observes, “Narrative is attention to finalizing the details
the museum could now happen as one of the oldest and most important and building what we believe will
soon as this year along Vermont impulses in art. It is also the most be one of the most imaginative
Avenue in Exposition Park. popular form of art. Tracing the arc and inclusive art museums in the
The non-profit Museum of of narrative art reveals how culture world—a global destination that all

Narrative Art promises to be a unique is created, reinforced, and then Angelenos and Californians will be
gathering place where visitors can compelled to evolve.” proud to call their own.”

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