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Why George Lucas Wants to Open a Movie Art Museum in San Francisco

March 7, 2013 at 2:52 PM | by | Comments (0)

George Lucas might have sold Lucasfilm to Disney, but that doesn't mean he's ready to ride off into the sunset.

The Star Wars Guru recently submitted a proposal to The Presidio Trust to build an art museum on a commissary site at Crissy Field in San Francisco.

Lucas is an avid art collector who currently owns more than 1,000 works of art, enough to rotate a gallery collection every six months for six years.

He has said "Star Wars was there to inspire young people to imagine things," and he's hoping his museum will do the same. In addition to displaying art, the museum will teach visitors about the craft of storytelling and explain the process of designing movie sets, creating characters, and making costumes.

The trust wants to create a "cultural institution of distinction," and who better to curate such a space than the man who created one of our most important pop culture touchstones.

It's not a sure thing, yet. The Presidio Trust received a total of 16 proposals for the site, all which you can check out and comment on at www.presidio.gov.

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