Upon completing the final installment, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983), George Lucas had a collection of artifacts from the production of the Star Wars trilogy—original concept art, sketches, blueprints, mattes, maquettes, models, props, vehicles, and costumes—preserved at Lucasfilm’s headquarters at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, California. Since then, the Lucasfilm Archive collection has grown to include artifacts from other Lucasfilm Ltd. productions, including the Indiana Jones films, the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999–2005), Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), Willow (1988), and Red Tails (2012).

The Lucasfilm Archive collection continues to be a source of inspiration for new Star Wars feature films, episodic series, publications, the theme park Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland, and much more. Here, the collection is displayed for the first time in its new permanent home at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.