Just south of downtown Los Angeles, there's something new, something that looks like it came from a galaxy far, far away.
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Our tour guides: The co-founders, "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, and his wife, businesswoman Mellody Hobson, giving CBS News their only interview.
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"No matter what you look at here, it's emotional," Lucas said.
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"I kept saying, 'It's not a 'Star Wars' museum, it's a narrative art museum.
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It's about telling stories.'
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When we finally found a home here in L.A., I said, 'Well, we can't not have some "Star Wars" stuff in it, because that's what's driving a certain group of people that love "Star Wars" into the museum.'
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According to Hobson, the sci-fi franchise only accounts for about seven percent of the art in the museum, "but it packs a punch.
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The other 90-ish percent of the museum focuses on what Lucas and Hobson call "myths," with 33 galleries organized around themes such as motherhood, work, family and love.
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"We're using the word myth a lot," said Hobson.
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"Myths are things you believe, but they're not necessarily true."
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"But you believe them because they're emotionally true," Lucas added.
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"Love is complex," Lucas said.
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Hobson said, "Most depictions of love that we see are the happy versions of love.
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The journey to building Lucas' brainchild took nearly two decades, a number of setbacks, multiple proposed locations, and at least $1 billion of Lucas' own money.
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And Lucas says, while Hobson considered shelving the project, he did not.
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Hobson recalled a very intense moment: "I said, 'George, let's just give the art to another museum and, like, call it a day.'
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And he looked at me and he said, 'I am building this museum!'
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And it was like the most intense version of him I had ever seen.
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We're not ones to argue.
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And I was like, 'OK, we're building a museum.'
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I was like, got it.
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Lucas said the reason was his strong desire to honor illustrators: "I did tours of major museums, and the director would say, 'Well, I hear you're building a museum.
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I said, 'It's narrative art.'
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He said, 'I've never heard of that.'
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I said, 'Well, it's art that illustrates a story.'"
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Filmmaker Steven Spielberg has been best friends with Lucas for almost 60 years, and serves on the museum's board of directors.
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He said, "George has changed the world with some of his ideas, as he's going to change the world with the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
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He's giving a forum, a venue for artists that are not always accepted in the institutions of the art world."
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The two share a love of not just movies, but also Norman Rockwell.
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"George has about three times the number of [Rockwell] paintings as I have," Spielberg said.
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"I think I began collecting Rockwell first, and then George caught up, and then went way beyond me."
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Around each bend is something interesting to look at: A Rockwell, depicting a museum-goer taking in a Jackson Pollack.
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There's Batman, a rare Frida Khalo, and the first piece of art Lucas ever collected, an "Ally Oop" comic strip, purchased while he was in college for about $35.
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"It's the only thing I could afford," he said.
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He can now afford much more.
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The 82-year-old is not only known for blockbuster franchises like "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones," but his companies pioneered digital editing and revolutionized special effects.
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Asked if he sees the museum that bears his name as his legacy, Lucas replied, "I don't think about legacies.
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"He's not sentimental," said Hobson.
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We put Lucas on the building to get people to come."
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The museum opens to the public on Tuesday, and Hobson has a new hope
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…and 11 more, not listed.
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