About us

The Projet

Science Fiction was born in the nineteenth in the spirit of the French writer Jules Verne. In the early twentieth century, Georges Méliès revolutionized the genre with a new art: cinema. Since that day, the science fiction cinema gradually became a major art with works such as Fritz Lang's Métropolis, Fred McLeod's Forbidden Planet, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, George Lucas' Star Wars, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, Luc Besson's The Fifth Element or, more recently, James Cameron's Avatar.

The main mission of ScienceFictionArchives.com is the preservation and development of its collections. The company also has a teaching goal particularly on the subjects of science, science fiction and cinema. To this end that the archives are now available to museums worldwide.

In the digital era, the mission of the ScienceFictionArchives.com is greatly legitimized by the fact that traditional special-effects quickly leave the room for digital data, resulting in scarcity of real objects. ScienceFictionArchives.com preserves skills that tend to go away in order to better shape the future based on the past.

Who are we ?

Our team is composed of several experts who have worked in specialized press (Lucasfilm / Star Wars Magazine, Starfix, Dixième Planète), organization of events (official conventions: Star Wars Reunion in 2005 & Star Wars Reunion II in 2007 for 30 years of the saga, James Bond Club Convention France 2001) or through national exhibitions (Star Wars The Exhibition at Paris museum Cité des Sciences), our combined experience allow us to talk to the media, bring expertise to public communities or private collectors, or to participate in seminars and debates on topics related to science fiction.

In addition, the team is under the auspices of the Honorary President Mr. Robert Watts, a close associate of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg for 15 years, who has produced or co-produced The Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Collection history

Fascinated by science-fiction at a young age, Arnaud Grunberg began collecting objects relating to such in the late 70s but it’s in 1989 he gained the first object of film (an Alien egg).

Then, the collection has expanded rapidly to the point that in the 90s, the historical interest of this collection became evident and that Arnaud Grunberg had quickly worry about perennity. This led him to found in 2008, ScienceFictionArchives.com.

With over 1,500 original artifacts from sci-fi movies, ScienceFictionArchives.com is one of the largest collections of Sci-Fi objects in the world. The archive includes items from more than 80 movies, some of great sagas like Alien, Back to the Future, Battlestar Galactica, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, Star Wars, Terminator, The Matrix...

Our charter

The objects of the Archives are not for sale.
We keep carefully for the long term.
We expose the objects with respect for their integrity.
We commit ourselves not to let objects appears in other films or TV series.
The objects of the archive are described with precision and intellectual rigor.

Contact us

ScienceFictionArchives.com / Callisto s.a.r.l. Director : Arnaud Grunberg
a.grunberg@sf-archives.com

Exhibition & Collection Manager : Patrice Girod
p.girod@sf-archives.com

Archives Manager : Benjamin Fleurier
b.fleurier@sf-archives.com