George Lucas' Los Angeles-based Museum of Narrative Art has had its staffing issues - losing its executive director and laying off 22 staff - but judging by its latest coverage the filmmaker and his high-powered wife, Mellody Hobson, have hired first-rate landscapers.
The LA Times devotes a vast swath of space to the design of its garden roof and surrounding 11-acre grounds, reporting much of it will be open free to the public with no need for a museum ticket.
The design, by Los Angeles-based Mia Lehrer, includes a footbridge, a waterfall and hanging gardens with the undulating landscape created by sculpting thousands of foam blocks to recreate the natural world without weighing too heavily on the roof.
The museum building itself may look like a spaceship from one of the Star Wars filmmaker's box office hits, but he said he wanted its "backyard" to "provide a respite in a hectic world".
The long-planned museum is set to open next year with work by Carrie Mae Weems, Diego Rivera and Norman Rockwell among the collection.