Details on George Lucas museum planned for Chicago

Leah Zanolla | Posted: Oct 21, 2014 | Updated: Oct 21, 2014 - 10:31:22 AM

George Lucas discussed his new "Lucas Film of Narrative Art" in a recent Chicago Ideas Week forum, giving a few more details about the plans. Announced in June 2014, the museum was originally planned for San Francisco, but was moved to Chicago after talks with the city proved more fruitful than with San Francisco. The museum will be built on Chicago's lakefront in the Museum Campus.

Lucas said of the museum, "It's going to be organic architecture, connected to the ground. And it will look like a living thing." He has been collected art since college and wants a place to display the works, which include "illustrations by Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish and N.C. Wyeth as well as works by Lucas' visual effects company, Industrial Light and Magic, and other companies." Lucas describes narrative art as "art that tells a story."

The city of Chicago will donate the land to the project, but Lucas will pay for construction and maintaining the museum. Lucas became interested in Chicago as a home for the museum due to the urging of his wife, Mellody Hobson, a Chicago native and prominent businesswoman.