MAGNET is designed to draw together people with an interest in and a passion for photography, to share their knowledge, experience and aspirations and gain new insights and expertise.
MAGNET has permanent and temporary exhibitions, a library, bookshop, coffee shop, classes and seminars and meetings space. Exhibition spaces are available for hire.
MAGNET’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.