diff --git a/web/sections.ts b/web/sections.ts
index 5e59476..bea7f94 100644
--- a/web/sections.ts
+++ b/web/sections.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import { Home, Info, Layers, Images, Handshake, Sparkles, Wrench, Settings, Mail
 
 export type SectionKey =
   | 'administration'
+  | 'galleries'
   | 'media'
   | 'messages'
   | 'site'
@@ -154,6 +155,29 @@ export const SECTIONS: Section[] = [
     built: true,
     requires: 'connection',
   },
+  {
+    /*
+      Galleries — 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
+      has chosen and put in an order, which is a decision worth keeping once rather than remaking on
+      every page that wants it.
+
+      `requires: 'root'` and not `'connection'`. A gallery is made of originals on this disk, so it is
+      reachable as soon as there is a root location — the same reasoning that unlocked Media, and for
+      the same reason: gating it behind a site connection it does not use was the bug that made the
+      distinction necessary.
+    */
+    key: 'galleries',
+    label: 'Galleries',
+    icon: Images,
+    hint: 'Named sets of media, reusable across the site',
+    path: null,
+    built: false,
+    requires: 'root',
+    pinned: true,
+  },
   {
     /*
       The site's own media, browsed in place.