George Lucas' $1bn Star Wars museum finds Los Angeles home
The Lucas-funded museum will now be homed in the Exposition Park in LA after the project was pulled from the intended location in Chicago. Thought to be costing $1bn, the board of directors decided that "South Los Angeles' Promise Zone best positions the museum to have the greatest impact on the broader community, fulfilling our goal of inspiring, engaging and educating a broad and diverse visitorship".

Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas has settled on Los Angeles for the home of his $1 billion storytelling museum, after pulling the project from Chicago last year.

Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti says the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will be in Exposition Park in downtown Los Angeles.

"I believed in the vision for the Lucas Museum, and we went after it with everything we have – because I know that LA is the ideal place for making sure that it touches the widest possible audience," Garcetti said, thanking Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson.

The museum was initially planned for Chicago, but Lucas ran into legal challenges from an open-spaces group and pulled the project. Garcetti immediately moved to woo the filmmaker to house the museum in Los Angeles.