Via thegaurdian.com:

“It belongs in a museum!”

So growled Indiana Jones, a character co-created by George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and, let’s be fair, countless half-remembered stars from Hollywood’s early era of one-reel serials. And those films in turn were inspired by luridly illustrated pulp magazines whose simple-but-irresistible tales can be traced back, no doubt, to the first narratives humans ever shared around a campfire – “I almost caught a mastodon THIS BIG before it got away”.

It makes sense, therefore, that George Lucas is financing a new museum dedicated to “narrative art”. Plans were unveiled this week for the newest addition to Chicago’s already remarkable skyline, and the sketches are as exhilarating as anything from Lucas’s galaxy far, far away.

The proposed museum’s round design playfully shares some similarities withBespin’s Cloud City crossed with Jabba the Hutt’s palace. For those worried that visiting the domicile of that corpulent crimelord would be inappropriate for a family outing, fear not: the Star Wars Expanded Universe teaches us how the castle in Tatooine’s Northern Dune Sea was originally established as a monastery for B’omarr monks seven full centuries before the Battle of Yavin.

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