Albany is an open-source Multiphysics research platform developed mainly at Sandia National Laboratories. It hosts a variety of projects: solid mechanics (LCM), ice sheet modeling (FELIX), topology optimization (ATO), climate modeling (Aeras), etc. It is a C++ object-oriented, parallel, unstructured-grid, implicit finite element code for solving general partial differential equations. Salient features: use of components for rapid development; decomposes complex problem into simpler problems with managed dependencies; use of automatic differentiation for Jacobian computation. Extensive use of SNL's TRILINOS library for numerical computation. Albany has the ability to do design and not just forward simulation: optimization, parameter inversion, topological optimization, stability analysis, etc. Fundamental consideration of finite deformation mechanics within the context of nonlinear finite element methods integrated with constitutive model domain expertise provide a path to evaluation of material performance intimately tied to the structure-properties relationships. Albany is open source under a BSD-style license and is hosted on GitHub. It accepts a few mesh database formats, the most common is the Exodus format developed at Sandia. Exodus meshes are created using Sandia's Cubit meshing tool. Albany also reads plain ASCII files and a format called PUMI developed at RPI. It also produces output in the Exodus format, which can be visualized with a variety of tools such as Paraview.