Welcome to the virtual tour of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, located on the first floor of Cavanaugh Hall in Indiana University’s School of Liberal Arts on the IU Indianapolis campus. If you are following the visual tour, click on the walking figure in the bottom left to start out in the middle of the Center’s archival suite, facing north.

You are now inside the research section of the Center. This area houses our research archives, reference library and artifact gallery. The ten tall file cabinets against the north wall (facing you) were housed in the garage of Ray Bradbury’s Los Angeles home, where he worked from 1958 until the end of his life. In front of these are shorter filing cabinets that were in his Palm Springs weekend house, where he also worked, beginning in the early 1980s.

If you turn to the left, you’ll be facing the long west wall of exhibits related to Bradbury’s Hollywood legacy. You’ll see the first magazine printings of the Bradbury stories that were adapted for film, and the large theater lobby posters of the movies which were made from them. Most of the items were Bradbury’s personal copies.