Lucas Museum delays opening

Pandemic-related problems push the $1-billion project’s completion to 2025.

The $1-billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which is rising in Exposition Park, has pushed back its opening date from 2023 to 2025. The two-year delay, the museum says, is due to pandemic complications, specifically supply chain issues that have made the procuring of certain construction materials difficult.

“It’s not one thing, it’s an accumulation of things,” Lucas Museum Director Sandra Jackson-Dumont says in an interview. “It’s definitely supply chains, delays in getting materials, manufactur

Roberto Gomez USC School of Cinematic Arts/JAKS Productions THE LUCAS MUSEUM’S futuristic design is by MAD Architects’ Ma Yansong. It has made a number of important art acquisitions while construction continues.