The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art may have a futuristic bent, but it made a very of-the-moment move last week.

A highly anticipated addition to the Los Angeles museum scene, the $1 billion institution announced six key executive hires.

All of them are women. Five of them are people of color.

That includes Pilar Tompkins Rivas as chief curator and deputy director of curatorial and collections, and Nenette Luarca-Shoaf as managing director of learning and engagement.

Others joining the exec team for George Lucas’ pseudo spaceship edifice in Exposition Park are Amanda Hunt as director of public programs and creative practice; Anais Disla as director of special events; Larissa Gentile as managing director of special projects; and Erica Neal as director of computing and infrastructure.

These women figure to play instrumental roles in the offerings and operations at the museum as it prepares to open sometime in the next few years (no date has been announced).

They would be strong choices at any time. But at a moment when the world has awakened to the importance of social justice, they make a bold statement and send a clear signal to L.A.’s business community.

Anything with the Lucas name attached to it has a way of influencing and being widely imitated in Hollywood and beyond, as you well know. Let’s hope that’s the case again this time.

Speaking of eagerly awaited museums, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures added six impressive and diverse members to its board of trustees last week. JPMorgan exec and LA500 member Olivier de Givenchy is part of the group, along with Harvard University Chief of Staff Patricia Bellinger and Rolex global communications director Arnaud Boetsch. So are producer Ryan Murphy, Artemis Rising Foundation founder Regina Scully and Ray Halbritter, nation representative of the Oneida Indian Nation. The Academy Museum is scheduled to open April 30.