We Visited George Lucas' $1 Billion Museum! (It's Not Just Star Wars)

We are exploring the billion-dollar Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles to see if it lives up to the hype. George Lucas spent nearly 20 years and about $1 billion of his own money building the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, and we finally walked inside. Spoiler: this is NOT a Star Wars museum. We're taking you through the whole 700-foot "spaceship" of a building and its galleries. We found a Picasso comic strip, original Where the Wild Things Are watercolors, E. H. Shepard's Winnie-the-Pooh, Frida Kahlo, the Frank Frazetta painting the original Star Wars poster riffs on, and a whole gallery of Banksy.

And yes, we found the Star Wars: Luke's screen-used X-34 Landspeeder, Imperial Speeder Bikes, Podracers, Doug Chiang and McQuarrie concept art, and General Grievous's Wheel Bike. But something about the tags on these displays left us with questions, and we get honest about what Star Wars fans should expect before making the pilgrimage. Plus the reproduced Sistine Chapel ceiling, lunch at Skywalker Grill, the free Research Library with Joseph Campbell's personal books, and the 13-acre sculpture garden with Yoda, Grogu, Padme and Leia in bronze. Come with us on this adventure!

00:00 Entering the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
01:43 What Is Narrative Art?
02:27 Norman Rockwell Gallery
05:10 Indiana Jones Influences
05:59 Star Wars in Motion Exhibit in the Cinema Gallery
11:30 Picasso's Comic Strip and Children's Stories Gallery
12:43 A New Banksy
13:20 The Building: George Lucas Built a Spaceship
15:53 Lunch at Skywalker Grill
19:27 The History of Narrative Art: Heroes, Myths, The Sacred
21:06 The Banksy Collection in the Mural Gallery
22:57 Science Fiction Gallery: Close Encounters and Flying Saucers
23:30 The Free Research Library
24:15 The Comic and Graphic Stories Galleries
29:26 Exit through the Gift Shop
34:21 Sculpture Garden: Yoda, Grogu, Padme and Leia
36:20 Final Thoughts on the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

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