San Francisco Chronicle's Charles Desmarais visited the George Lucas estate in California for an initial look at the fimmaker's vast collection that would form the planned Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.

Previous attempts to create the museum in San Francisco and Chicago have fallen through. Lucas reportedly would give $1 billion to the project. Now, talk of a Treasure Island location in San Francisco, or a Los Angeles venue, have brought renewed interest into just what comprises the Lucas collection.

Lucas has amassed about 10,000 paintings and works on paper and 30,000 film-related objects. Don Bacigalupi, the museum’s founding president who formerly headed Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and other major institutions, tells Desmarais his ideas in showing such an assemblage of narrative art.

Says Bacigalupi, "...the museum really doesn’t pay attention to that capital “A” Art, and instead looks for this through line, this continuity in whatever form, whatever context, whatever medium ... for this very basic human impulse: to tell stories.”

Take a look: http://projects.sfchronicle.com/2016/lucas-art/