Lucas Museum Opens Sept. 22: Tickets, Hours and What’s Inside

• The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens to the public on Tuesday, Sept. 22, in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. The gala was Saturday night.
• Tickets are $25 for adults and $21 for seniors; everyone 17 and under gets in free. All visits need a timed ticket booked in advance.
• Hayden Christensen made it a father-daughter night, walking the carpet with Briar Rose, 11, his daughter with Rachel Bilson.

George Lucas has spent more than a decade trying to build a museum. On Saturday, Sept. 19, it finally threw its opening party, and on Tuesday the doors open to everyone.

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, founded by George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, is a 300,000-square-foot building in Exposition Park designed by architect Ma Yansong. Its subject is storytelling in pictures, from cave paintings to comic strips to Star Wars.

How much are Lucas Museum tickets?

Adults pay $25, seniors 65 and over $21. Children and teens 17 and under, members and active-duty military get in free. Residents of the 90037 ZIP code, the museum’s neighborhood, can register for a free pass.

Every visitor, free or not, needs a timed-entry ticket booked in advance on the museum’s website. The park and gardens, shop, café and the Skywalker Grill restaurant do not require a ticket.

What are the Lucas Museum’s hours?

Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Last entry is 45 minutes before closing.

The museum is closed on Tuesdays, which makes opening day, a Tuesday, the exception. The address is One Lucas Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90037.

What’s inside the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art?

More than 1,300 works in the opening shows, from a collection of over 40,000, across 30-plus galleries. The first floor opens with a history of visual storytelling, including full-scale reproductions of the Sistine Chapel ceiling and cave paintings from Altamira, made with the partner institutions.

Upstairs, the artists range from Norman Rockwell, Frida Kahlo and Vincent van Gogh to Beatrix Potter, Frank Frazetta and Robert Crumb. Film gets equal billing: the museum holds the complete Lucas Archives from 1971 to 2012, and Star Wars models, costumes and concept art are on display.

The artists in this collection didn’t just create images, they connected our modern imaginations with our ancient emotions. They deserve to be in a museum.

George Lucas, in the museum’s opening announcement

That is the argument of the whole building: comics and movie art belong in the same rooms as painting.

Lucasfilm’s output from those years includes Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the movie that paid a 12-year-old Ke Huy Quan a first residual check of almost $100,000.

Who was at the Lucas Museum opening?

The Sept. 19 gala drew Oprah Winfrey, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Samuel L. Jackson, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill.

The moment that got passed around, though, was Anakin. Hayden Christensen, 45, arrived holding hands with his daughter, Briar Rose, in her first red carpet. “It’s a real treat to get to share this with my daughter,” he told E! News.

Christensen, who is returning as Anakin Skywalker in Ahsoka, shares Briar with his ex-fiancée, actress Rachel Bilson. Here is the local coverage of the night, from the carpet to the galleries.

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Sources: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (press release, Sept. 2, 2026; Plan Your Visit and ticketing pages); ABC7 Los Angeles (opening gala coverage, Sept. 19); E! News (Hayden Christensen interview); Parade (Megan Johnson); CBS Sunday Morning. Photos: frames from ABC7, Lucas Museum celebrates opening night with star-studded gala, and Star Wars, Hayden Christensen | Star Wars Celebration LIVE! 2025.