The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, founded by filmmaker George Lucas and his partner Mellody Hobson, has announced that it will give free annual passes and an early preview to residents of its neighbouring South L.A. ZIP code, 90037, ahead of its public opening on 22 September 2026. The initiative rewards the local community that has watched the $1 billion institution being built over the past eight years, and reflects an effort to make the museum's grounds and public spaces accessible to a predominantly Hispanic and African American area where a quarter of residents live below the poverty line.

The 300,000-square-foot museum, funded by Lucas's Star Wars fortune, will display more than 1,300 objects and includes 11 acres of landscaped grounds designed by Mia Lehrer, within Ma Yansong's futuristic building in Exposition Park. Its collection draws on the original Lucasfilm archives retained after the 2012 sale of Lucasfilm to Disney for $4 billion, and spans artists from Norman Rockwell, Jack Kirby and Robert Crumb to Frida Kahlo and local muralist Judith Baca. The renewable passes, which let holders reserve a pair of tickets, come as the museum joins a shifting L.A. cultural scene, following LACMA's David Geffen Galleries debut in April and the temporary closures of the Getty Center and La Brea Tar Pits for renovation.