Rendering of the Lucas Museum, viewed from Bill Robertson Lane.
Mellody Hobson and George Lucas, 2025. © 2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Photograph by Deanna and Ed Templeton.
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art celebrates the power of visual storytelling. Founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, the museum explores how images move us and shape our collective memory. From Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait to Norman Rockwell’s scenes of everyday life to Charles White’s portraits of dignity. Each invites reflection. Each tells a story.
Designed by Ma Yansong of MAD, the Lucas Museum is located in Exposition Park in the South Los Angeles region. The museum’s campus includes new green space designed by Mia Lehrer and her team at Studio-MLA. Inside the building, our galleries explore timeless themes—family, love, work, play, fantasy, and more. Additional spaces include two state-of-the-art cinematic theaters and dedicated areas for learning, dining, retail, and events.
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The Lucas Museum under construction. © 2025 JAKS Productions. All rights reserved.
Ralph McQuarrie, Artoo and Threepio Leave the Pod in the Desert, production art, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, 1975, gouache on board. ™ and © 2025 Ltd. All rights reserved.
George Lucas
Founder, Lucasfilm
Co-chair of the Board
Mellody Hobson
Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments
Co-chair of the Board
George Lucas and Mellody Hobson share a conviction that illustrated stories connect people across cultures and generations. Their decades of collecting span iconic American painting and popular illustration, comics, and cinematic art.
Lucas, creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, and founder of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, began collecting in college, when the only art he could afford was original comic art for $30. For over 50 years, that collection has grown to more than 40,000 works. "I could never sell my art," Lucas says. "It just is not what I think art is. I think it's more about an emotional connection with the work, not how much it cost."
Hobson, in addition to managing Ariel Investments, is the former chair of Starbucks Corporation and serves as a director of JPMorganChase.
In 2010, Hobson and Lucas signed the Giving Pledge, a campaign and public promise by some of the world's wealthiest philanthropists to give the majority of their wealth to charitable causes. The pair is committed to improving education, particularly through the arts. “We've always said we're holding society's money, which we fully intend to give back,” Hobson says. “This is how we're doing it."
George Lucas
Founder, Lucasfilm
Co-chair of the Board
Mellody Hobson
Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments
Co-chair of the Board
Andrea Wishom
President, Skywalker Holdings, LLC
Vice chair of the Board
Henry Bienen
President Emeritus, Northwestern University
Cesar Conde
Chairman, NBCUniversal News Group
Guillermo del Toro
Filmmaker
Arne Duncan
Former US Secretary of Education
Jim Gianopulos
CEO, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
Michael Govan
CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
John McCarter, Jr.
Life Trustee and President Emeritus, The Field Museum of Natural History
Steven Spielberg
Filmmaker
Matthew Yale
Founder and CEO, Grove Partners
Ernie Barnes, The Drum Major, 2003, acrylic on canvas. © 2025 Ernie Barnes Family Trust. Photograph by Jeff McLane, courtesy of UTA Artist Space and the Estate of Ernie Barnes.
Jim Gianopulos
CEO
James N. (Jim) Gianopulos has been a leading figure in the entertainment industry for more than 40 years. He currently serves as CEO of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and as special advisor to the museum’s founders, George Lucas and Mellody Hobson. Until 2021, he was chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures, where he oversaw major film productions like Mission Impossible: Fallout, A Quiet Place, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Top Gun: Maverick. Under his leadership, Paramount Television Studios also expanded with series such as The Offer and Fatal Attraction.
Before Paramount, Gianopulos was chairman and CEO of Twentieth Century Fox from 2000 to 2016, where he led the studio to record-breaking profits. Among the many successes during Gianopulos’s stewardship were two of the highest grossing films of all time, Titanic and Avatar, as well as the Planet of the Apes, X Men, and Star Wars franchises, in addition to Deadpool, The Martian, and many other critical and commercial successes. He also played a key role in advancing media technologies, including the launches of iTunes and Hulu.
Gianopulos is actively involved in civic and philanthropic endeavors, serving on the boards of the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the Motion Picture & Television Fund, the X Prize Foundation, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center. His contributions to the industry have earned him numerous accolades.