The facility is a state-of-the-art magneto-optical imaging system built on a Nikon polarized light microscope. A solenoid mounted at the base of the column can produce external magnetic fields of 0 - 0.12 T oriented either in the plane or normal to the plane of the sample. The detector system uses Bi -doped ferromagnetic garnet indicator films with in-plane magnetic anisotropy. This unique ferromagnetic indicator material measures the perpendicular component of the magnetic field above the surface of the sample with a spatial resolution of ~ 5 microns. Images are collected with analog or digital cameras. The local magnetic field above the sample can be compared directly with conventional light microscope images of the same region for studies of structure-property relationships. A He-flow cryostat allows control of the sample temperature from room temperature down to as low as ~7 K. Specialized image analysis software for analysis of the magnetic field distribution above superconducting samples is integrated into the system.