The store section of Magnet Galleries featuring art books for sale and a couch.

Magnet Galleries Melbourne

Magnet Galleries Melbourne is not-for-profit photography gallery hosting permanent and temporary exhibitions that preserve and celebrate the best of Australian photography. Magnet's aim is to encourage excellence among established and emerging photographers.

The gallery's collection includes the Neil McLeod collection (over 20,000 images of Indigenous life over the last 50 years), the Albert Brown collection of the 1950s and 1960s (including Lake Tyers Mission) and rare historical glass plate negatives and stereo slides, including the Gallipoli series by Sir Charles Snodgrass Ryan.

Day	Times
Monday	Closed
Tuesday	10am - 4pm
Wednesday	10am - 4pm
Thursday	10am - 4pm
Friday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	10am - 4pm
Sunday	Closed

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