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Magnet Galleries Melbourne

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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.

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Day Times
Monday
  • Closed
Tuesday
  • 10am - 4pm 10am - 4pm
Wednesday
  • 10am - 4pm 10am - 4pm
Thursday
  • 10am - 4pm 10am - 4pm
Friday
  • 10am - 4pm 10am - 4pm
Saturday
  • 11am - 4pm 11am - 4pm
Sunday
  • 11am - 4pm 11am - 4pm

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Magnet Galleries Melbourne
SC G19 Wharf st
Docklands 3008

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  • telephone number: 03 8589 0371
  • email address: contact@magnet.org.au
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