Kids To Get In Free at Lucas Museum
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| Kelly Freas, Mad magazine cover art, 1960. Lucas Museum of Narrative Art |
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has announced ticketing details. General admission will be $25 ($21 for seniors). As expected, children and teens (17 and under) will get in for free, matching an Academy Museum policy funded by George Lucas' Family Foundation. Also free will be active-duty military personnel and EBT cardholders.
These prices position the Lucas in the middle of the pack among admission-charging L.A. museums. The neighboring Natural History Museum charges $18; the Autry is $20; LACMA is $25 ($30 for out-of-state visitors); the Huntington is $29 ($34 on weekends and other peak days).
Tickets go on sale July 21, 2026, at 10 AM Pacific time. The Lucas opens to the public Sep. 22, 2026, but museum members can preview the museum Sep. 5–11. Annual membership is $140.
The Lucas will stay open until 9 PM on Fridays and Saturdays.
UPDATE: Residents of the neighboring 90037 zip code are eligible for free annual passes.
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The distinction between the high brow and middle (or low) brow in today's society becomes a big blur, particularly in LA, where ideas of professionalism or sophistication are all over the map.
Micheal Govan is on Lucas's board and LACMA has allowed for some not-too-professional things. Various objects - and not just a work as large as the marble relief of Judgment of Jupiter - are attached to Geffen's walls with metal clamps that the museum's staff made no effort to blend the color of the clamp with a sculpture's stone surface.
Sooie, sooie, Count-ey Museum of Art (said with a southern drawl). lol.
As for the hick sound of "count-y" (as opposed to, by contrast, "met"), a writer based in NYC last year did a piece about the Geffen where he poked fun at the sound of "county" in "County Museum of Art."
You obviously haven't scrolled through comments posted here going back months. That's because LACMA once being a part of the museum in Exposition Park has been cited repeatedly. I pointed out recently that Houston had a publicly owned and operated museum devoted to the visual arts in the 1920s. LA didn't have one until 1965.
Certain - certain - kinds of miscues of the museum when director Richard Brown moved it to Wilshire Blvd are being repeated with director Michael Govan in 2026.
Something in the DNA of LACMA always makes it come up short.
christopher.knight.7, Instagram:
Unfortunately the installation is rather poor. One of six gold-ground works lined up in a row on a minimalist table... “It looks like a West Elm home decor display,” an eye-rolling friend who’s a distinguished curator said.
Nonetheless, I was pleased to see it. Many of LACMA’s first-class objects – Asian, European, Oceanic, American, Ancient, etc. - still languish in storage, despite the museum’s brand new, $835 million building project for the permanent collection. [End quote]
^ That was in reference to the display format ("West Elm") of Gothic art pieces in the Geffen.
Govan and his staff have mishandled so many crucial facets of LACMA, I'm giving them slack on poor lighting. I'm instead focusing on all the dead space in the Geffen - the bare walls and blank floors - that gives the sense the museum doesn't have anything of value it feels should be on public display instead of storage.