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Matthew Cantor in Los Angeles

‘I’m used to doing the impossible’: George Lucas unveils new LA museum – what’s its story?

the outside of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art aims to be a testament to visual storytelling across all kinds of media – paintings, comics, murals, photography, sculpture. Photograph: Courtesy Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

“I’m used to doing the impossible,” George Lucas said on Wednesday. But “this one almost broke my will”.

The film-maker was describing the decades of work that went into his latest project, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, as it was unveiled to the press in Los Angeles eight years after breaking ground, following attempts to build it in two other cities. Shaped like a spaceship and towering over the nearby University of Southern California – Lucas’s alma mater – the long-awaited institution finally opens on 22 September. It aims to be a testament to visual storytelling across all kinds of media – paintings, comics, murals, photography, sculpture.

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