The Lucas Museum's ticket queue is already thousands of people deep

General admission tickets for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art officially went on sale this morning, and the virtual queue immediately ballooned into the thousands. According to TMZ, eager fans logging in to secure their spot found themselves staring at wait times with thousands of people ahead of them. One user clocked in at position 6,427 just minutes after the portal opened.

The tickets cover admission dates from the museum's grand opening on September 22, 2026.

A spaceship in Los Angeles

If you are wondering what exactly people are lining up for, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is a massive facility dedicated entirely to visual storytelling. Founded by filmmaker George Lucas and businesswoman Mellody Hobson, the project sits in Exposition Park. The building is designed to look somewhat like a futuristic vessel touching down in the middle of parkland.

The museum is not just a Star Wars prop warehouse. The collection holds works spanning traditional fine art, photography, illustration, and comic books. The galleries will feature pieces by Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, and Frida Kahlo sitting alongside comic art from Jack Kirby. The institution has also been aggressively acquiring new pieces over the last few years. In 2021, they picked up the archive materials for Judy Baca's half-mile-long Great Wall of Los Angeles mural, along with Robert Colescott's painting George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware River. They also own the Separate Cinema Archive, which tracks the history of African American cinema from 1904 onward.

The cinematic archives

Of course, the cinematic history is the main draw for the people currently crashing the ticket servers. The building houses the complete Lucas Archives. That means visitors can see Luke Skywalker's original lightsaber, Darth Vader's helmet, and the foundational concept art by Ralph McQuarrie that defined the look of the original sci-fi trilogy.

Getting to this point took over a decade. The project was originally announced back in 2014. It bounced between proposed locations in Chicago and San Francisco before finally settling on Los Angeles in 2017. Ground broke in 2018 with an initial target opening of 2021, but pandemic-related supply chain issues pushed that date back by five full years.

Finally opening the doors

The doors finally open to the public on September 22, 2026. For everyone else currently stuck in the general admission virtual queue, you might want to put on a long movie. You are going to be waiting a while.