diff --git a/api/publish.ts b/api/publish.ts
index 970f792..df9d9ce 100644
--- a/api/publish.ts
+++ b/api/publish.ts
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ const CONTENT_TABLES = [
   /*
     The page builder's own tables, and the reason they are FIRST.
 
-    Parents before children: a section belongs to a page and a component to a section. `galleries` sits
+    Parents before children: a section belongs to a page and a component to a section. `carousels` sits
     below them because a gallery block names a set by id — carried in JSON rather than as a foreign
     key, so nothing enforces the order, which is exactly why it is written down.
 
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ const CONTENT_TABLES = [
   'home_content',
   'home_gallery_media',
   'about_content',
-  'galleries',
-  'gallery_items',
+  'carousels',
+  'carousel_items',
   'collections',
   'collection_items',
   'collection_item_media',
diff --git a/web/GalleryPicker.tsx b/web/CarouselPicker.tsx
similarity index 71%
rename from web/GalleryPicker.tsx
rename to web/CarouselPicker.tsx
index 2937dda..e5881d0 100644
--- a/web/GalleryPicker.tsx
+++ b/web/CarouselPicker.tsx
@@ -5,17 +5,17 @@ import { Dialog, DialogContent, DialogHeader, DialogTitle } from '@/components/u
 import { readableError } from './errors';
 
 /**
- * Choose WHICH gallery a block shows.
+ * Choose WHICH carousel a block shows.
  *
  * ── A reference, not a copy ──
  *
- * `galleries` is a named, ordered set built to be shown in more than one place — the old home carousel
- * already read one by id. So a gallery block stores that id and owns nothing else: reordering the set
+ * `carousels` is a named, ordered set built to be shown in more than one place — the old home carousel
+ * already read one by id. So a carousel block stores that id and owns nothing else: reordering the set
  * reorders every block pointing at it, and a photograph swapped there is swapped everywhere. That is
  * the whole reason the set has a name instead of being a list of files on a page.
  *
  * It follows that this picker chooses a SET, and editing what is IN the set happens where the set
- * lives — under Galleries. A block that could also rearrange its own pictures would be a second place
+ * lives — under Carousels. A block that could also rearrange its own pictures would be a second place
  * to do the same job, and the two would disagree.
  *
  * ── No thumbnails, deliberately ──
@@ -23,17 +23,17 @@ import { readableError } from './errors';
  * The plugin has no way to address a rendition: `MediaPicker` hands that job to the platform's file
  * browser, and every path stored here names an ORIGINAL that a browser cannot display. Rather than
  * build a second, worse image pipeline for a dialog, this shows the name and the count — which is what
- * tells two galleries apart, since the name is the thing somebody chose.
+ * tells two carousels apart, since the name is the thing somebody chose.
  */
 
-export type GallerySummary = {
+export type CarouselSummary = {
   id: number;
   name: string;
   slug: string;
   items: unknown[];
 };
 
-export const GalleryPicker = ({
+export const CarouselPicker = ({
   open,
   onClose,
   onPick,
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ export const GalleryPicker = ({
 }: {
   open: boolean;
   onClose: () => void;
-  onPick: (galleryId: number) => void;
+  onPick: (carouselId: number) => void;
   /** The one this block already shows, so reopening the picker says where it stands. */
   selected?: number | null;
 }) => {
@@ -49,19 +49,19 @@ export const GalleryPicker = ({
   const clientRef = useRef(client);
   clientRef.current = client;
 
-  const [galleries, setGalleries] = useState<GallerySummary[] | null>(null);
+  const [carousels, setCarousels] = useState<CarouselSummary[] | null>(null);
   const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null);
 
-  // Re-read on every open rather than once. A gallery created in the other panel while this session
+  // Re-read on every open rather than once. A carousel created in the other panel while this session
   // has been running would otherwise be missing from a list that looks complete.
   useEffect(() => {
     if (!open) return;
-    setGalleries(null);
+    setCarousels(null);
     setError(null);
     void (async () => {
       try {
-        const response = await clientRef.current.get<{ data: GallerySummary[] }>('/fofos-admin/galleries');
-        setGalleries(response.data);
+        const response = await clientRef.current.get<{ data: CarouselSummary[] }>('/fofos-admin/carousels');
+        setCarousels(response.data);
       } catch (failure) {
         setError(readableError(failure));
       }
@@ -72,12 +72,12 @@ export const GalleryPicker = ({
     <Dialog open={open} onOpenChange={(next) => !next && onClose()}>
       <DialogContent className="sm:max-w-lg">
         <DialogHeader>
-          <DialogTitle>Choose a gallery</DialogTitle>
+          <DialogTitle>Choose a carousel</DialogTitle>
         </DialogHeader>
 
         {error && <p className="text-xs text-destructive">{error}</p>}
 
-        {!galleries && !error && (
+        {!carousels && !error && (
           <p className="flex items-center gap-2 p-4 text-xs text-muted-foreground">
             <Loader2 className="size-3.5 animate-spin" />
             Loading…
@@ -85,29 +85,29 @@ export const GalleryPicker = ({
         )}
 
         {/* Nothing to choose is a real state and says what to do about it, rather than an empty box.
-            Creating one belongs under Galleries — see the note above about one place per job. */}
-        {galleries?.length === 0 && (
+            Creating one belongs under Carousels — see the note above about one place per job. */}
+        {carousels?.length === 0 && (
           <p className="p-4 text-xs text-muted-foreground">
-            No galleries yet. Make one under Galleries, then come back.
+            No carousels yet. Make one under Carousels, then come back.
           </p>
         )}
 
         <div className="flex flex-col gap-1.5">
-          {galleries?.map((gallery) => {
-            const count = Array.isArray(gallery.items) ? gallery.items.length : 0;
-            const current = gallery.id === selected;
+          {carousels?.map((carousel) => {
+            const count = Array.isArray(carousel.items) ? carousel.items.length : 0;
+            const current = carousel.id === selected;
             return (
               <button
-                key={gallery.id}
+                key={carousel.id}
                 type="button"
-                onClick={() => onPick(gallery.id)}
+                onClick={() => onPick(carousel.id)}
                 className={`flex items-center gap-3 rounded-lg border p-3 text-left transition-colors ${
                   current ? 'border-primary bg-primary/10' : 'border-border hover:border-primary hover:bg-muted/50'
                 }`}
               >
                 <Images className="size-4 shrink-0 text-muted-foreground" />
                 <span className="min-w-0 flex-1">
-                  <span className="block truncate text-sm">{gallery.name}</span>
+                  <span className="block truncate text-sm">{carousel.name}</span>
                   <span className="text-[11px] text-muted-foreground">
                     {count === 1 ? '1 item' : `${count} items`}
                   </span>
diff --git a/web/DetailPanel.tsx b/web/DetailPanel.tsx
index 0859704..3cdb711 100644
--- a/web/DetailPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/DetailPanel.tsx
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import { AdministrationPanel } from './AdministrationPanel';
 import { MediaPanel } from './MediaPanel';
 import { CollectionsPanel } from './sections/CollectionsPanel';
 import { PiecesPanel } from './sections/PiecesPanel';
-import { GalleriesPanel } from './sections/GalleriesPanel';
+import { CarouselsPanel } from './sections/CarouselsPanel';
 import { LayoutPanel } from './sections/LayoutPanel';
 import { PageBuilderPanel } from './sections/PageBuilderPanel';
 import { ViewModeProvider } from './ViewMode';
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ const PANELS: Partial<Record<SectionKey, () => React.JSX.Element>> = {
   layout: LayoutPanel,
   collections: CollectionsPanel,
   pieces: PiecesPanel,
-  galleries: GalleriesPanel,
+  carousels: CarouselsPanel,
   messages: MessagesPanel,
   administration: AdministrationPanel,
   media: MediaPanel,
diff --git a/web/EditorPanel.tsx b/web/EditorPanel.tsx
index cb585e8..69f7423 100644
--- a/web/EditorPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/EditorPanel.tsx
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ export const EditorPanel = () => {
       {/*
         Only where there is a page to look at.
 
-        The toggle sets the width the PREVIEW renders at, and Galleries, Media and Administration have
+        The toggle sets the width the PREVIEW renders at, and Carousels, Media and Administration have
         no preview — the control would be three buttons that do nothing visible. Named here rather
         than read from `usePreviewable`, which is a context inside the detail panel and this is its
         sibling.
diff --git a/web/canvas.ts b/web/canvas.ts
index 4438e63..8db014d 100644
--- a/web/canvas.ts
+++ b/web/canvas.ts
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ export type CanvasComponent = {
   /*
     One optional field per kind that the panel reads back. Not `Record<string, unknown>`: every reader
     would then need a cast, and the point of naming them is that the compiler knows `free-text` holds
-    `html` and `gallery` holds `galleryId`.
+    `html` and `gallery` holds `carouselId`.
   */
-  content?: { html?: string; galleryId?: number | null; url?: string; ratio?: number; crop?: string };
+  content?: { html?: string; carouselId?: number | null; url?: string; ratio?: number; crop?: string };
   padding?: Record<string, { x?: number; y?: number }>;
 };
 export type CanvasSection = {
diff --git a/web/file-actions.ts b/web/file-actions.ts
index d71ea0c..056f0b4 100644
--- a/web/file-actions.ts
+++ b/web/file-actions.ts
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ const relativeTo = (path: string): string | null => {
 
 export const fileActions: FileAction[] = [
   {
-    key: 'fofos-admin:create-gallery',
-    label: 'Create Gallery',
+    key: 'fofos-admin:create-carousel',
+    label: 'Carousel from folder',
     icon: Images,
     /*
       A folder, or any number of files — both are ways of saying "these, in this order".
@@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ export const fileActions: FileAction[] = [
         paths = body.files;
       }
       /*
-        Handed over in the URL, and the Galleries panel does the asking.
+        Handed over in the URL, and the Carousels panel does the asking.
 
         The action has no dialog of its own on purpose: naming a gallery, seeing the slug it will get
-        and watching the items land belongs on the screen that owns galleries, not in a modal over a
+        and watching the items land belongs on the screen that owns carousels, not in a modal over a
         file browser that would then have to explain where the result went.
       */
       // The section is a PATH now, so this names it rather than editing the current query. `create` and
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ export const fileActions: FileAction[] = [
       const params = new URLSearchParams();
       params.set('create', entries.length === 1 && entries[0]!.type === 'directory' ? entries[0]!.name : '');
       params.set('from', paths.join('\n'));
-      window.history.pushState({}, '', `${href('galleries')}?${params.toString()}`);
+      window.history.pushState({}, '', `${href('carousels')}?${params.toString()}`);
       // The router listens for this; pushState alone does not notify it.
       window.dispatchEvent(new PopStateEvent('popstate'));
     },
diff --git a/web/routes.ts b/web/routes.ts
index 2620c66..26971ad 100644
--- a/web/routes.ts
+++ b/web/routes.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import { DEFAULT_SECTION, isSectionKey, type SectionKey } from './sections';
  * ── Why the pathname and not `useParams` ──
  *
  * Which parameters exist depends on which route matched: `/fofos-admin/layout/header` has a `band` and
- * `/fofos-admin/galleries` has nothing. A panel would then have to know its own route to read its own
+ * `/fofos-admin/carousels` has nothing. A panel would then have to know its own route to read its own
  * position, and every panel is rendered on all of them.
  *
  * Two segments after the mount, always in the same places. One reader, every route.
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ export const useNav = (): {
  * A link to a section, or to something inside one.
  *
  * The query string is dropped, and that is the point rather than an omission. `?device=tablet` is how
- * you are looking at the Layout preview; carrying it into Galleries would be state from one screen
+ * you are looking at the Layout preview; carrying it into Carousels would be state from one screen
  * deciding something on another. A panel that wants a parameter to survive says so at its own link.
  */
 export const href = (
diff --git a/web/sections.ts b/web/sections.ts
index edebb6d..2c9287e 100644
--- a/web/sections.ts
+++ b/web/sections.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import type { LucideIcon } from 'lucide-react';
-import { Boxes, Cog, Files, FolderOpen, Images, Mail, PanelsTopLeft, Shapes } from 'lucide-react';
+import { Boxes, Cog, Files, FolderOpen, GalleryHorizontal, Images, Mail, PanelsTopLeft, Shapes } from 'lucide-react';
 
 /**
  * The sections of the fofos admin, in nav order.
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ export type SectionKey =
   | 'administration'
   | 'collections'
   | 'pieces'
-  | 'galleries'
+  | 'carousels'
   | 'media'
   | 'messages'
   | 'layout'
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ export const SECTIONS: Section[] = [
   },
   {
     /*
-      Galleries — an entity of their own, not a list hanging off a page.
+      Carousels — an entity of their own, not a list hanging off a page.
 
       Above Media and pinned with it, because the two are the same kind of thing: the raw material the
       site is built from, held on this machine. Media is the files; a gallery is a set of them somebody
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ export const SECTIONS: Section[] = [
     path: '/fofos-admin/collections',
     built: true,
     /*
-      Same reason as Galleries: a collection is a ROW read through the site's admin API, so this is
+      Same reason as Carousels: a collection is a ROW read through the site's admin API, so this is
       useless without the development server answering. What is different is that the row is only half
       of it — which collections EXIST is a question about `originals/COLLECTIONS/`, and the folders are
       registered as this list is read.
@@ -153,9 +153,9 @@ export const SECTIONS: Section[] = [
       The Gallery's pieces.
 
       Called Pieces, not Gallery. The section on the site is Gallery and its items are peças, and there
-      is already a `galleries` section here meaning something else entirely — a named set of media. Two
-      nav rows called Gallery and Galleries, meaning a list of objects and a list of photograph sets,
-      is a question somebody would have to answer every time they looked at it.
+      is a Carousels section here meaning something else entirely — a named, ordered set of media. The
+      two were called Gallery and Galleries once, meaning a list of objects and a list of photograph
+      sets, and that is what the rename to Carousels was for.
 
       Below Collections because it is the same object one level flatter, and it shares its panel — see
       sections/subjects.ts.
@@ -172,12 +172,12 @@ export const SECTIONS: Section[] = [
     pinned: true,
   },
   {
-    key: 'galleries',
-    label: 'Galleries',
-    icon: Images,
+    key: 'carousels',
+    label: 'Carousels',
+    icon: GalleryHorizontal,
     hint: 'Named sets of media, reusable across the site',
-    // `/fofos-admin/galleries` — it reads the site's own admin API, unlike Media beside it.
-    path: '/fofos-admin/galleries',
+    // `/fofos-admin/carousels` — it reads the site's own admin API, unlike Media beside it.
+    path: '/fofos-admin/carousels',
     built: true,
     requires: 'connection',
     pinned: true,
diff --git a/web/sections/AddComponentDialog.tsx b/web/sections/AddComponentDialog.tsx
index 59d827e..ef72289 100644
--- a/web/sections/AddComponentDialog.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/AddComponentDialog.tsx
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import { Dialog, DialogContent, DialogHeader, DialogTitle } from '@/components/u
 export type ComponentKind =
   | 'free-text'
   | 'media'
-  | 'gallery'
+  | 'carousel'
   | 'contact-form'
   | 'partners'
   | 'collections'
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ export type ComponentKind =
   | 'subject-title'
   | 'subject-description'
   | 'subject-specs'
-  | 'subject-gallery';
+  | 'subject-carousel';
 
 /*
   The blocks that draw whatever the page is ABOUT.
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ export const SUBJECT_KINDS: ComponentKind[] = [
   'subject-title',
   'subject-description',
   'subject-specs',
-  'subject-gallery',
+  'subject-carousel',
 ];
 
 type Choice = {
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ type Choice = {
  * `kind: null` means not built.
  *
  * Named rather than omitted, and the ones named are things the site already HAS — media, video and
- * galleries all exist as concepts here. That is the difference between saying what is coming and
+ * carousels all exist as concepts here. That is the difference between saying what is coming and
  * inventing a roadmap. Gallery stopped being one of them on 2026-08-31: the set, its ordering and the
  * carousel that draws it were all already built, so the block is a reference to one.
  */
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ export const CHOICES: Choice[] = [
     always done.
   */
   { kind: 'media', label: 'Media', hint: 'A photograph or a video, from the media store', Icon: Image },
-  { kind: 'gallery', label: 'Gallery', hint: 'A named set of media', Icon: Images },
+  { kind: 'carousel', label: 'Carousel', hint: 'A named set of media', Icon: Images },
   /*
     Three that place something the site already draws.
 
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ export const CHOICES: Choice[] = [
   { kind: 'subject-title', label: 'Its name', hint: 'What this page is about', Icon: Heading },
   { kind: 'subject-description', label: 'Its description', hint: 'What was written about it', Icon: Type },
   { kind: 'subject-specs', label: 'Its specs', hint: 'Measurement, material, colours, and the rest', Icon: Ruler },
-  { kind: 'subject-gallery', label: 'Its photographs', hint: 'The gallery it points at', Icon: Images },
+  { kind: 'subject-carousel', label: 'Its photographs', hint: 'The gallery it points at', Icon: Images },
 ];
 
 export const AddComponentDialog = ({
diff --git a/web/sections/BandBlocks.tsx b/web/sections/BandBlocks.tsx
index 167369d..5f601d6 100644
--- a/web/sections/BandBlocks.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/BandBlocks.tsx
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import type { CanvasComponent, CanvasSection } from '../canvas';
  *
  * The page's structure nests this under every band, and the band's own editor shows just its own.
  * They are the same list of the same things with the same actions, so they are the same component —
- * the galleries panel taught that lesson once already.
+ * the carousels panel taught that lesson once already.
  *
  * ── Columns, because adding needs one ──
  *
diff --git a/web/sections/GalleryItems.tsx b/web/sections/CarouselItems.tsx
similarity index 88%
rename from web/sections/GalleryItems.tsx
rename to web/sections/CarouselItems.tsx
index 601bad2..8aeda89 100644
--- a/web/sections/GalleryItems.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/CarouselItems.tsx
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { thumbUrl } from '../thumbnail';
 /**
  * One gallery's contents: what is in it, in what order, and what each picture is called.
  *
- * ── Why it is here and not a link to Galleries ──
+ * ── Why it is here and not a link to Carousels ──
  *
  * A gallery block on a page IS a gallery, and being sent to another section to reorder it means
  * losing the page you were arranging it for. The set is a thing of its own — that is why it has its
@@ -18,36 +18,36 @@ import { thumbUrl } from '../thumbnail';
  *
  * ── It reads the gallery itself ──
  *
- * `GET /galleries/:id`, rather than being handed one. The block knows an id and nothing else, and a
+ * `GET /carousels/:id`, rather than being handed one. The block knows an id and nothing else, and a
  * component that fetches what it needs can be dropped anywhere something knows an id.
  *
  * ── Duplication, stated plainly ──
  *
- * `GalleriesPanel` still draws its own copy of this list. That is a real duplicate and it should adopt
+ * `CarouselsPanel` still draws its own copy of this list. That is a real duplicate and it should adopt
  * this component — its version carries the same operations against the same routes, plus creating and
- * deleting whole galleries, which this deliberately does not.
+ * deleting whole carousels, which this deliberately does not.
  */
 
 type Item = { id: number; url: string; alt: string | null };
 type Gallery = { id: number; name: string; slug: string; items: Item[] };
 
-export const GalleryItems = ({ galleryId, onChanged }: { galleryId: number; onChanged?: () => void }) => {
+export const CarouselItems = ({ carouselId, onChanged }: { carouselId: number; onChanged?: () => void }) => {
   const client = useClient();
   const clientRef = useRef(client);
   clientRef.current = client;
 
-  const [gallery, setGallery] = useState<Gallery | null>(null);
+  const [gallery, setCarousel] = useState<Gallery | null>(null);
   const [busy, setBusy] = useState(false);
   const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null);
   const [picking, setPicking] = useState(false);
 
   const load = useCallback(async () => {
     try {
-      setGallery((await clientRef.current.get<{ data: Gallery }>(`/fofos-admin/galleries/${galleryId}`)).data);
+      setCarousel((await clientRef.current.get<{ data: Gallery }>(`/fofos-admin/carousels/${carouselId}`)).data);
     } catch (failure) {
       setError(readableError(failure));
     }
-  }, [galleryId]);
+  }, [carouselId]);
 
   useEffect(() => {
     void load();
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ export const GalleryItems = ({ galleryId, onChanged }: { galleryId: number; onCh
 
     next.splice(to, 0, next.splice(from, 1)[0]!);
     orderedRef.current = next;
-    setGallery({ ...gallery, items: next });
+    setCarousel({ ...gallery, items: next });
   };
 
   const commitOrder = () => {
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ export const GalleryItems = ({ galleryId, onChanged }: { galleryId: number; onCh
     if (!ordered) return;
 
     void send(() =>
-      clientRef.current.put(`/fofos-admin/galleries/${galleryId}/items/order`, { ids: ordered.map((one) => one.id) }),
+      clientRef.current.put(`/fofos-admin/carousels/${carouselId}/items/order`, { ids: ordered.map((one) => one.id) }),
     );
   };
 
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ export const GalleryItems = ({ galleryId, onChanged }: { galleryId: number; onCh
                   const value = event.target.value.trim();
                   if (value === (item.alt ?? '')) return;
                   void send(() =>
-                    clientRef.current.patch(`/fofos-admin/galleries/${galleryId}/items/${item.id}`, {
+                    clientRef.current.patch(`/fofos-admin/carousels/${carouselId}/items/${item.id}`, {
                       alt: value || null,
                     }),
                   );
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ export const GalleryItems = ({ galleryId, onChanged }: { galleryId: number; onCh
                 className="h-7 px-1.5 text-destructive"
                 disabled={busy}
                 onClick={() =>
-                  void send(() => clientRef.current.delete(`/fofos-admin/galleries/${galleryId}/items/${item.id}`))
+                  void send(() => clientRef.current.delete(`/fofos-admin/carousels/${carouselId}/items/${item.id}`))
                 }
               >
                 <Trash2 className="size-3.5" />
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ export const GalleryItems = ({ galleryId, onChanged }: { galleryId: number; onCh
         onClose={() => setPicking(false)}
         onPick={(url) => {
           setPicking(false);
-          void send(() => clientRef.current.post(`/fofos-admin/galleries/${galleryId}/items`, { urls: [url] }));
+          void send(() => clientRef.current.post(`/fofos-admin/carousels/${carouselId}/items`, { urls: [url] }));
         }}
         title="Add to this gallery"
       />
diff --git a/web/sections/GalleriesPanel.tsx b/web/sections/CarouselsPanel.tsx
similarity index 90%
rename from web/sections/GalleriesPanel.tsx
rename to web/sections/CarouselsPanel.tsx
index 8d5ea3a..367b26a 100644
--- a/web/sections/GalleriesPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/CarouselsPanel.tsx
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
 import { Input } from '@/components/ui/input';
 import { readableError } from '../errors';
 import { useEditorSlot } from '../useEditorSlot';
-import { GalleryItems } from './GalleryItems';
+import { CarouselItems } from './CarouselItems';
 
 /**
- * Galleries — named, ordered sets of media, reusable anywhere on the site.
+ * Carousels — named, ordered sets of media, reusable anywhere on the site.
  *
  * ── Why a gallery is not a list on a page ──
  *
@@ -28,12 +28,12 @@ import { GalleryItems } from './GalleryItems';
 type Item = { id: number; url: string; alt: string | null; sort_order: number };
 type Gallery = { id: number; name: string; slug: string; items: Item[] };
 
-export const GalleriesPanel = () => {
+export const CarouselsPanel = () => {
   const client = useClient();
   const clientRef = useRef(client);
   clientRef.current = client;
 
-  const [galleries, setGalleries] = useState<Gallery[] | null>(null);
+  const [carousels, setCarousels] = useState<Gallery[] | null>(null);
   const [openId, setOpenId] = useState<number | null>(null);
   const [name, setName] = useState('');
   /** Paths handed over by the context menu, waiting for a name. */
@@ -46,11 +46,11 @@ export const GalleriesPanel = () => {
 
   const load = useCallback(async () => {
     try {
-      const response = await clientRef.current.get<{ data: Gallery[] }>('/fofos-admin/galleries');
-      setGalleries(response.data);
+      const response = await clientRef.current.get<{ data: Gallery[] }>('/fofos-admin/carousels');
+      setCarousels(response.data);
     } catch (failure) {
       setError(readableError(failure));
-      setGalleries([]);
+      setCarousels([]);
     }
   }, []);
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ export const GalleriesPanel = () => {
 
   useEffect(() => {
     setEditorRef.current(
-      openId === null ? null : <GalleryItems galleryId={openId} onChanged={() => void load()} />,
+      openId === null ? null : <CarouselItems carouselId={openId} onChanged={() => void load()} />,
     );
   }, [openId, load]);
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ export const GalleriesPanel = () => {
 
     The action puts the chosen paths in the URL and sends you here rather than opening its own dialog:
     naming a gallery, seeing the slug it gets and watching the items land belongs on the screen that
-    owns galleries. Consumed once and removed from the URL — a `?from=` left behind would recreate the
+    owns carousels. Consumed once and removed from the URL — a `?from=` left behind would recreate the
     gallery on every refresh, which somebody discovers as four copies.
   */
   const arriving = params.get('from');
@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ export const GalleriesPanel = () => {
   /*
     Renaming changes the NAME and leaves the slug exactly where it is.
 
-    Everything that points at a gallery points at its id — `collections.gallery_id`, and a gallery
-    block's `content.galleryId`. Nothing renders through the slug, so a rename cannot break a reference
+    Everything that points at a gallery points at its id — `collections.carousel_id`, and a gallery
+    block's `content.carouselId`. Nothing renders through the slug, so a rename cannot break a reference
     today. It is left alone anyway, because a slug is an ADDRESS: it can end up in a link somebody
     sent, and the day something does resolve by it, a label having quietly moved it would be a very
     hard bug to find.
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ export const GalleriesPanel = () => {
   const rename = () =>
     send('rename', async () => {
       if (!renaming?.name.trim()) return;
-      await clientRef.current.patch(`/fofos-admin/galleries/${renaming.id}`, { name: renaming.name.trim() });
+      await clientRef.current.patch(`/fofos-admin/carousels/${renaming.id}`, { name: renaming.name.trim() });
       setRenaming(null);
     });
 
@@ -144,17 +144,17 @@ export const GalleriesPanel = () => {
     send('create', async () => {
       // `urls` in the same request, so creating from a selection is one action — splitting it would
       // leave an empty gallery behind whenever the second call failed.
-      await clientRef.current.post('/fofos-admin/galleries', { name: name.trim(), urls: pending });
+      await clientRef.current.post('/fofos-admin/carousels', { name: name.trim(), urls: pending });
       setName('');
       setPending([]);
     });
 
-  if (!galleries) return <div className="p-5 text-xs text-muted-foreground">{error ?? 'Loading…'}</div>;
+  if (!carousels) return <div className="p-5 text-xs text-muted-foreground">{error ?? 'Loading…'}</div>;
 
   return (
     <div className="flex size-full flex-col gap-4 overflow-auto p-5">
       <section className="flex flex-col gap-3 rounded-lg border border-border p-4">
-        <h3 className="text-sm font-medium">Galleries</h3>
+        <h3 className="text-sm font-medium">Carousels</h3>
 
         {error && <p className="text-xs text-destructive">{error}</p>}
 
@@ -193,13 +193,13 @@ export const GalleriesPanel = () => {
         The list, and only the list.
 
         The contents of a gallery — its pictures, their order, their captions — are announced to the
-        editor column and drawn by `GalleryItems`, which is the same component a gallery BLOCK on a
+        editor column and drawn by `CarouselItems`, which is the same component a gallery BLOCK on a
         page uses. Two copies of that list existed for a day and this is the one that went.
 
-        So this panel is what a master list should be: which galleries there are, making one, deleting
+        So this panel is what a master list should be: which carousels there are, making one, deleting
         one. What is inside the selected one is a different question, answered beside it.
       */}
-      {galleries.map((gallery) => {
+      {carousels.map((gallery) => {
         const open = openId === gallery.id;
         return (
           <section
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ export const GalleriesPanel = () => {
               className="shrink-0"
               onClick={() =>
                 void send(`gallery:${gallery.id}`, () =>
-                  clientRef.current.delete(`/fofos-admin/galleries/${gallery.id}`),
+                  clientRef.current.delete(`/fofos-admin/carousels/${gallery.id}`),
                 )
               }
               disabled={busy !== null}
diff --git a/web/sections/HomePanel.tsx b/web/sections/HomePanel.tsx
index 661e4a7..f8d7a7f 100644
--- a/web/sections/HomePanel.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/HomePanel.tsx
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ type Home = {
   /** The OLD per-page list. Still returned by the API, and only rendered while no gallery is chosen. */
   gallery: GalleryItem[];
   /** Which gallery the carousel shows. Null means the old list above still applies. */
-  gallery_id: number | null;
+  carousel_id: number | null;
 };
 
 type Gallery = { id: number; name: string; slug: string; items: unknown[] };
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ export const HomePanel = () => {
   const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null);
   const [saved, flashSaved] = useFlash();
   const [picking, setPicking] = useState(false);
-  const [galleries, setGalleries] = useState<Gallery[]>([]);
+  const [carousels, setCarousels] = useState<Gallery[]>([]);
 
   /** Every write answers with the whole payload, so this is the only place state is set. */
   const apply = useCallback((data: Home) => {
@@ -87,13 +87,13 @@ export const HomePanel = () => {
     void load();
   }, [load]);
 
-  // The galleries to choose between, read from the section that owns them rather than embedded in the
+  // The carousels to choose between, read from the section that owns them rather than embedded in the
   // home payload — a copy there would go stale the moment somebody edited one.
   useEffect(() => {
     void clientRef.current
-      .get<{ data: Gallery[] }>('/fofos-admin/galleries')
-      .then((response) => setGalleries(response.data))
-      .catch(() => setGalleries([]));
+      .get<{ data: Gallery[] }>('/fofos-admin/carousels')
+      .then((response) => setCarousels(response.data))
+      .catch(() => setCarousels([]));
   }, []);
 
   const send = async (label: string, call: () => Promise<{ data: Home }>) => {
@@ -217,15 +217,15 @@ export const HomePanel = () => {
           A picker, not a list.
 
           Managing items here would be a second editor for something that already has one, and the two
-          would drift: a caption fixed in one place and not the other. The page chooses; the Galleries
+          would drift: a caption fixed in one place and not the other. The page chooses; the Carousels
           section arranges.
         */}
         <select
-          value={home.gallery_id ?? ''}
+          value={home.carousel_id ?? ''}
           onChange={(event) =>
-            void send('gallery', () =>
+            void send('carousel', () =>
               clientRef.current.patch<{ data: Home }>('/fofos-admin/home', {
-                gallery_id: event.target.value ? Number(event.target.value) : null,
+                carousel_id: event.target.value ? Number(event.target.value) : null,
               }),
             )
           }
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ export const HomePanel = () => {
           className="w-full rounded-md border border-border bg-background px-3 py-2 text-xs"
         >
           <option value="">None</option>
-          {galleries.map((gallery) => (
+          {carousels.map((gallery) => (
             <option key={gallery.id} value={gallery.id}>
               {gallery.name} · {gallery.items.length} item{gallery.items.length === 1 ? '' : 's'}
             </option>
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ export const HomePanel = () => {
 
         {/* Only while it is true: the old rows are what renders until a gallery is chosen, and saying so
             beats a carousel that appears to come from nowhere. */}
-        {home.gallery_id === null && home.gallery.length > 0 && (
+        {home.carousel_id === null && home.gallery.length > 0 && (
           <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground/70">
             Showing {home.gallery.length} item{home.gallery.length === 1 ? '' : 's'} from the old
             per-page list. Choosing a gallery replaces it.
diff --git a/web/sections/PageBuilderPanel.tsx b/web/sections/PageBuilderPanel.tsx
index 37bdd7d..59bcfd6 100644
--- a/web/sections/PageBuilderPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/PageBuilderPanel.tsx
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import { paintMeasure, paintSelection, type CanvasComponent, type CanvasSection
 const LABELS: Record<string, string> = {
   'free-text': 'Text',
   media: 'Media',
-  gallery: 'Gallery',
+  carousel: 'Carousel',
   'contact-form': 'Contact form',
   partners: 'Partners',
   collections: 'Collections',
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ const LABELS: Record<string, string> = {
   'subject-title': 'Name',
   'subject-description': 'Description',
   'subject-specs': 'Specs',
-  'subject-gallery': 'Photographs',
+  'subject-carousel': 'Photographs',
 };
 
 /*
@@ -47,14 +47,14 @@ const PLACES_ONLY: string[] = [
   'subject-title',
   'subject-description',
   'subject-specs',
-  'subject-gallery',
+  'subject-carousel',
 ];
 import { AddSectionDialog, type SectionLayout } from './AddSectionDialog';
 import { FreeTextEditor } from './FreeTextEditor';
 import { SpacingEditor, type Padding } from './SpacingEditor';
 import { BandSettings } from './BandSettings';
 import { BlockSettings } from './BlockSettings';
-import { GalleryItems } from './GalleryItems';
+import { CarouselItems } from './CarouselItems';
 import { PartnersEditor } from './PartnersEditor';
 import { BlockMedia } from './BlockMedia';
 import { PageStructure } from './PageStructure';
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ const shapeOf = (block: { content?: { url?: string; ratio?: number } }): string
 import { useEditorSlot } from '../useEditorSlot';
 import { AddComponentDialog, type ComponentKind } from './AddComponentDialog';
 import { MediaPicker } from '../MediaPicker';
-import { GalleryPicker } from '../GalleryPicker';
+import { CarouselPicker } from '../CarouselPicker';
 import { pageFromParam, pageParam, usePages, useSections, type Page } from '../usePages';
 
 /**
@@ -165,14 +165,14 @@ export const PageBuilderPanel = () => {
     Which gallery a block shows, while it is being chosen.
 
     The same shape as `picking` and for the same reason: choosing a set is one act with one outcome, so
-    there is nothing to draft and nothing to cancel out of afterwards. `galleryId` rides along so
+    there is nothing to draft and nothing to cancel out of afterwards. `carouselId` rides along so
     reopening the picker can show where the block already stands.
   */
-  const [choosingGallery, setChoosingGallery] = useState<{
+  const [choosingCarousel, setChoosingCarousel] = useState<{
     id: number | null;
     sectionId: number;
     column: number;
-    galleryId: number | null;
+    carouselId: number | null;
   } | null>(null);
 
   const [editing, setEditing] = useState<{ id: number | null; sectionId: number; column: number; html: string } | null>(
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ export const PageBuilderPanel = () => {
     /*
       Selecting a block shows its settings. It does not open a picker.
 
-      `editComponent` means "edit what is IN this block", and for media and galleries that is a modal
+      `editComponent` means "edit what is IN this block", and for media and carousels that is a modal
       over the whole screen. Firing it on mere selection meant clicking a row in the nav threw a dialog
       at you before you had said you wanted one — those kinds get a button in the settings instead.
 
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ export const PageBuilderPanel = () => {
     // Each kind opens its own editor. A kind with no case here cannot be created, which is the point.
     if (kind === 'free-text') setEditing({ id: null, ...at, html: '' });
     if (kind === 'media') setPicking({ id: null, ...at });
-    if (kind === 'gallery') setChoosingGallery({ id: null, ...at, galleryId: null });
+    if (kind === 'carousel') setChoosingCarousel({ id: null, ...at, carouselId: null });
     if (PLACES_ONLY.includes(kind)) void createEmpty(kind, at);
   };
 
@@ -494,23 +494,23 @@ export const PageBuilderPanel = () => {
   };
 
   /*
-    A gallery block is a REFERENCE, saved as soon as the set is chosen — see GalleryPicker.
+    A gallery block is a REFERENCE, saved as soon as the set is chosen — see CarouselPicker.
 
     Identical in shape to saveVideo because it is the same interaction: pick one thing, store one
     value. The two are left as two functions rather than one generic saver, because what they store
     happens to be one field each today and a shared helper would be an abstraction over a coincidence.
   */
-  const saveGallery = async (galleryId: number) => {
-    if (!page || !choosingGallery) return;
-    const base = `/fofos-admin/pages/${page.id}/sections/${choosingGallery.sectionId}/components`;
-    const target = choosingGallery;
-    setChoosingGallery(null);
+  const saveCarousel = async (carouselId: number) => {
+    if (!page || !choosingCarousel) return;
+    const base = `/fofos-admin/pages/${page.id}/sections/${choosingCarousel.sectionId}/components`;
+    const target = choosingCarousel;
+    setChoosingCarousel(null);
     setError(null);
     try {
       if (target.id === null) {
-        await clientRef.current.post(base, { kind: 'gallery', column: target.column, content: { galleryId } });
+        await clientRef.current.post(base, { kind: 'carousel', column: target.column, content: { carouselId } });
       } else {
-        await clientRef.current.patch(`${base}/${target.id}`, { content: { galleryId } });
+        await clientRef.current.patch(`${base}/${target.id}`, { content: { carouselId } });
       }
       setRendered((n) => n + 1);
     } catch (failure) {
@@ -590,12 +590,12 @@ export const PageBuilderPanel = () => {
     }
 
     if (component.kind === 'gallery') {
-      const held = owner.components.find((one) => one.id === component.id)?.content?.galleryId;
-      setChoosingGallery({
+      const held = owner.components.find((one) => one.id === component.id)?.content?.carouselId;
+      setChoosingCarousel({
         id: component.id,
         sectionId: owner.id,
         column: component.column,
-        galleryId: typeof held === 'number' ? held : null,
+        carouselId: typeof held === 'number' ? held : null,
       });
       return;
     }
@@ -805,14 +805,14 @@ export const PageBuilderPanel = () => {
               </Button>
 
               {/*
-                The gallery's own contents, here rather than a link to the Galleries section.
+                The gallery's own contents, here rather than a link to the Carousels section.
 
                 A gallery block on a page IS a gallery, and being sent elsewhere to reorder it means
                 losing the page you were arranging it for. `onChanged` reloads the frame, because the
                 page draws this set and has just been given a different one.
               */}
-              {typeof block.content?.galleryId === 'number' && (
-                <GalleryItems galleryId={block.content.galleryId} onChanged={() => setRendered((n) => n + 1)} />
+              {typeof block.content?.carouselId === 'number' && (
+                <CarouselItems carouselId={block.content.carouselId} onChanged={() => setRendered((n) => n + 1)} />
               )}
             </div>
           )}
@@ -1050,11 +1050,11 @@ export const PageBuilderPanel = () => {
         title="Choose a photograph or a video"
       />
 
-      <GalleryPicker
-        open={choosingGallery !== null}
-        onClose={() => setChoosingGallery(null)}
-        onPick={(galleryId) => void saveGallery(galleryId)}
-        selected={choosingGallery?.galleryId ?? null}
+      <CarouselPicker
+        open={choosingCarousel !== null}
+        onClose={() => setChoosingCarousel(null)}
+        onPick={(carouselId) => void saveCarousel(carouselId)}
+        selected={choosingCarousel?.carouselId ?? null}
       />
 
     </div>
diff --git a/web/sections/PartnersEditor.tsx b/web/sections/PartnersEditor.tsx
index 62b1eb8..e1b9014 100644
--- a/web/sections/PartnersEditor.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/PartnersEditor.tsx
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import { thumbUrl } from '../thumbnail';
  * That is worth saying out loud in the panel, because the editor sits inside a block on a page and
  * everything else in that column belongs to the page.
  *
- * ── The same shape as GalleryItems ──
+ * ── The same shape as CarouselItems ──
  *
  * Drag to reorder, a grip on the left, one write at the end carrying every id. Deliberately, so the
  * two ordered lists in this admin are the same gesture rather than two things to learn.
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ export const PartnersEditor = ({ onChanged }: { onChanged?: () => void }) => {
     }
   };
 
-  /* Reordering, live. Same as GalleryItems — see the note there. */
+  /* Reordering, live. Same as CarouselItems — see the note there. */
   const [dragged, setDragged] = useState<number | null>(null);
   const orderedRef = useRef<Partner[] | null>(null);
 
diff --git a/web/sections/RecordsPanel.tsx b/web/sections/RecordsPanel.tsx
index e445db6..c8e7642 100644
--- a/web/sections/RecordsPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/RecordsPanel.tsx
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ type RecordRow = { id: number; title: string; sort_order: number } & Record<stri
  * A thumbnail URL, authenticated by `?token=`.
  *
  * An `<img>` cannot send an Authorization header, which is why `user-middleware` and the permission
- * gate both accept the token in the query string. The same thing GalleriesPanel and the file browser
+ * gate both accept the token in the query string. The same thing CarouselsPanel and the file browser
  * do — built without it first, and every picture 401s while the layout looks perfectly correct.
  */
 const thumbUrl = (path: string): string => {
diff --git a/web/sections/SubjectPanel.tsx b/web/sections/SubjectPanel.tsx
index 74a7847..a243676 100644
--- a/web/sections/SubjectPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/SubjectPanel.tsx
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { Images, Loader2, Plus, Trash2 } from 'lucide-react';
 import { useClient } from 'hooks/useClient';
 import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
 import { Input } from '@/components/ui/input';
-import { GalleryPicker } from '../GalleryPicker';
+import { CarouselPicker } from '../CarouselPicker';
 import { readableError } from '../errors';
 import { useEditorSlot } from '../useEditorSlot';
 import { thumbUrl } from '../thumbnail';
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ import type { SubjectPhoto, SubjectRecord, SubjectSection } from './subjects';
  *
  * The photographs belong to the gallery, and so does their order — including which one leads, which
  * is simply the first. Making them look pressable here would promise a control that lives in
- * Galleries.
+ * Carousels.
  */
 export const SubjectPanel = <T extends SubjectRecord>({ section }: { section: SubjectSection<T> }) => {
   const client = useClient();
@@ -167,11 +167,11 @@ export const SubjectPanel = <T extends SubjectRecord>({ section }: { section: Su
       );
     });
 
-  const chooseGallery = (galleryId: number) =>
+  const chooseCarousel = (carouselId: number) =>
     send(async () => {
       if (!selected) return;
       setPicking(false);
-      await clientRef.current.patch(`${section.endpoint}/${selected.id}`, { gallery_id: galleryId });
+      await clientRef.current.patch(`${section.endpoint}/${selected.id}`, { carousel_id: carouselId });
     });
 
   return (
@@ -230,11 +230,11 @@ export const SubjectPanel = <T extends SubjectRecord>({ section }: { section: Su
           <div className="mb-4 flex flex-wrap items-center gap-2 border-b border-border pb-3">
             <Button size="sm" variant="outline" className="h-8 gap-1.5 text-xs" onClick={() => setPicking(true)}>
               <Images className="size-3.5" />
-              {selected.gallery_id ? 'Change gallery' : 'Choose a gallery'}
+              {selected.carousel_id ? 'Change gallery' : 'Choose a gallery'}
             </Button>
             <span className="min-w-0 flex-1" />
             {/* Deleting removes the ROW, never the photographs — they belong to a gallery, which
-                belongs to Galleries. Said on the button so nobody has to find out. */}
+                belongs to Carousels. Said on the button so nobody has to find out. */}
             <Button
               size="sm"
               variant="outline"
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ export const SubjectPanel = <T extends SubjectRecord>({ section }: { section: Su
 
         {!selected ? (
           <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">Choose a {section.noun}, or make one.</p>
-        ) : !selected.gallery_id ? (
+        ) : !selected.carousel_id ? (
           <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">
             No gallery yet. Choose one and its photographs appear here.
           </p>
@@ -261,13 +261,13 @@ export const SubjectPanel = <T extends SubjectRecord>({ section }: { section: Su
           </p>
         ) : photos.length === 0 ? (
           <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">
-            That gallery is empty. Add photographs to it in Galleries.
+            That gallery is empty. Add photographs to it in Carousels.
           </p>
         ) : (
           <>
             <p className="mb-3 text-xs text-muted-foreground">
               {photos.length} photographs, in the gallery&rsquo;s order &mdash; the first one leads.
-              Reorder them in Galleries.
+              Reorder them in Carousels.
             </p>
             <ul className="grid grid-cols-[repeat(auto-fill,minmax(9rem,1fr))] gap-3">
               {photos.map((photo) => (
@@ -286,11 +286,11 @@ export const SubjectPanel = <T extends SubjectRecord>({ section }: { section: Su
       {/* `selected` guarded: the picker writes to whatever is open, and there is nothing to write to
           when nothing is. */}
       {selected && (
-        <GalleryPicker
+        <CarouselPicker
           open={picking}
           onClose={() => setPicking(false)}
-          onPick={(galleryId) => void chooseGallery(galleryId)}
-          selected={selected.gallery_id}
+          onPick={(carouselId) => void chooseCarousel(carouselId)}
+          selected={selected.carousel_id}
         />
       )}
     </div>
diff --git a/web/sections/subjects.ts b/web/sections/subjects.ts
index 54be5b3..f45b960 100644
--- a/web/sections/subjects.ts
+++ b/web/sections/subjects.ts
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import { Boxes, Shapes } from 'lucide-react';
 export type SubjectRecord = {
   id: number;
   /** The gallery holding its media, or null while nobody has chosen one. */
-  gallery_id: number | null;
+  carousel_id: number | null;
   title: string;
   slug: string | null;
   description: string | null;
diff --git a/web/thumbnail.ts b/web/thumbnail.ts
index 1deaecb..f2112b1 100644
--- a/web/thumbnail.ts
+++ b/web/thumbnail.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import { getHeaders } from 'hooks/useClient';
  *
  * ── Why this is a module ──
  *
- * It was copied into GalleriesPanel and again into RecordsPanel, and a third copy was about to go into
+ * It was copied into CarouselsPanel and again into RecordsPanel, and a third copy was about to go into
  * MediaField. Three copies of a URL shape is three places to be wrong about the rung when the ladder
  * changes — which it did, four times in a day.
  */