The droids you’re looking for are located in Northern California.
The Letterman Digital And New Media Arts Center is the picturesque 23-acre campus in San Francisco that houses Lucasfilm, the American media production company best known for making Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
Lucasfilm spent $350 million to get set up here in 2005. The space is a fully operational production studio and logistics center for 1,500 employees; all order of Lucasfilm business is handled here, from consumer products and digital media to animation and franchise management. It’s also home to Industrial Light & Magic, the famed special effects studio founded by George Lucas in 1975.
Beyond the daily grind of high-tech media production, Lucasfilm’s office space also serves as a museum of sorts. By dint of being attached to innumerable movies and television shows in a behind-the-scenes capacity, Lucasfilm has an impressive haul of one-of-a-kind show business props, models, and memorabilia on display nearly everywhere you look.
Only a small part of the campus — the lobby of Building B — is open to the public, but we got a backstage pass to take a tour of this beautiful space and its impressive collection.
Here’s what we saw!
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Welcome to Lucasfilm’s San Francisco campus! Every visitor is greeted by this iconic statue of Yoda, the famed Jedi master.
Once inside, the walls and hallways display memorabilia from every LucasFilm franchise you can think of. This is a fully operational production center, but it also pulls double-duty as a museum of movie treasures.
Star Wars is of course strongly represented here. Here’s C-3PO, everyone’s favorite protocol droid.
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