Los Angeles this autumn: Lucas Museum, hotels and restaurants

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opened on 22 September in Exposition Park, and the city is lining up openings through the end of the year: hotels, exhibitions, restaurants and the LAX airport works.

George Lucas’s museum opens the ball

Founded by the filmmaker and patron George Lucas and by executive Mellody Hobson, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is devoted to the art of visual storytelling. Since 22 September in Exposition Park, it brings together vast galleries, screening rooms, learning spaces, green spaces open to all and several restaurants, including the Skywalker Grill, perched at the top of the museum with a view over the city.

2296614882 — LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 22: (L-R) Founders George Lucas and Mellody Hobson speak onstage during the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Opening Day at Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on September 22, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Presley Ann/Getty Images for Lucas Museum of Narrative Art)

2296614911 — LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 22: (L-R) Founders George Lucas and Mellody Hobson speak onstage during the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Opening Day at Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on September 22, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Presley Ann/Getty Images for Lucas Museum of Narrative Art)

On 13 November, the California Science Center in turn inaugurates the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, which will house the Space Shuttle Endeavour standing vertically in launch position, over twenty storeys. This 18,500 m² extension brings together more than a hundred aerospace objects and a hundred interactive displays. Downtown, The Broad presents Has the myth been shattered, a free exhibition drawn from its collections, covering six decades of creation and showing for the first time more than a dozen works, including acquisitions by Guadalupe Rosales and Hank Willis Thomas, alongside Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon and Andy Warhol.

At the end of 2026, Meow Wolf is settling in Culver City, and the Museum of Ice Cream is opening in West Adams its first permanent address in Los Angeles: 2,100 m² on three levels, fifteen interactive installations and a thirty-metre slide.

Three hotels, a converted church

In Silver Lake, the Hotel Lucile, opened in September, occupies a 1931 church converted into a twenty-five-room hotel with a restaurant, bar, pool and rooftop lounge. In West Hollywood, the PUBLIC Hotel is Ian Schrager’s first California address: 137 rooms, three restaurants and venues, and a 1,500 m² rooftop terrace, in a building designed with the British architect John Pawson. Mama Shelter Downtown Los Angeles, expected by the end of the year in the Fashion District, announces 145 rooms, four suites and two restaurants, one of them on the roof.

Tables and a waterfront district

In Beverlywood, the bistro and wine bar Marée, opened on 9 September, seats seventy and offers a Californian and Parisian menu that changes with the seasons. In October, Nancy Silverton opens Spacca Tutto, an Italian-American steakhouse, at Palisades Village. On the Sunset Strip, Little Luck, led by chef Erik Idos, is the H.wood Group’s first Japanese restaurant.

In San Pedro, West Harbor is transforming the waterfront across seventeen hectares, with $500 million of investment: restaurants, shops, a promenade, a 6,200-seat amphitheatre and a 53-metre Ferris wheel. At the airport, the modernisation of LAX affects the terminals, walkways and signage, and the SKYLINK air train will connect the terminals, car parks, the Metro network and car rental, day and night, with a train every two minutes at peak hours.