Do we really need a "Star Wars" museum?

[stanncie]

Hmm why not? There’s museums for more outlandish things in my opinion. Do we truly NEED it? well no but it’s nice for those who enjoy it. Anyways why does it bother you?

 

[Lost_Wanderer]

We preserve works of art like the Mona Lisa, why shouldn’t we do the same with the creations of the recent/present centuries? You see, there’s just a certain level that cultural works of fiction tend to reach that they become historical, they just can’t be forgotten. Someone already brought up Frankenstein and Dracula, both works tracing their origins all the way to the 19th century. May I also add Godzilla which is right up there with King Kong when it came to introducing the world to giant monsters. Walt Disney revolutionized the animated film industry by giving us the first full-length animated feature film. Tolkien gave tremendous rise to the fantasy genre. To say that Star Wars doesn’t deserve its own museum is akin to saying that the Beatles don’t deserve to be on iTunes.

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

So George Lucas has decided to build his “Lucas Museum of Narrative Art” in Chicago.
There are people objecting to its proposed location on the lakefront, taking away space from the Soldier Field parking lot, but my concern is this: will the Star Wars saga eventually become irrelevant to future generations? Will we be stuck with a white elephant of a museum?

Most of the lake front is white elephant stuff. Even soldier field.

 

[rfournier103]

It never gets old, no matter how many times I watch it.
None of the other Star Wars movies ever came close to it, even with all the fancy special effects.

Absolutely.

 

[adawgj]

Star Wars is timeless. A museum sounds awesome, pardon my fan-boy attitude.

Star Wars is probably my favorite movie ever, everything about it is awesome. I can recite half the movie and I haven’t seen it in a while.

 

[colliric]

The Museum is actually about Film History and art. That it happens to be specifically based on Lucasfilm(not just Star Wars, but also Indiana Jones) is irrelevant.

These type of educational attractions have been tried and tested in the past, and always had a degree of success, especially with family groups and school children.