Very cool move by George Lucas

From The Fire Wire:

George Lucas Art Museum Is Coming To San Francisco
Just months after selling Lucasfilm to Disney, George Lucas is setting his sights on a new project: a San Francisco-based art museum.

�Star Wars was there to inspire young people to imagine things,� Lucas told CBS This Morning. The museum will serve a similar purpose.

An avid collector, Lucas� first art purchase was a comic book illustration costing about $25. His current collection consists of pieces from Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth and Norman Rockwell. He has more than 1,000 works of art, enough to rotate a gallery collection every six months for six years, CBS reports.

Lucas plans to build the museum on piece of land overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.

In addition to displaying art, the museum will teach young people about the craft of storytelling. He hopes to explain the process of designing sets, characters and costumes to visitors.

That would be worth a road-trip if I found myself in the vicinity... A tip of the hat to James Gurney for the link.