Enjoy art by the sea at a new gallery in northern China

Beijing's landmark art institution, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, opened its first branch the Dune Art Museum, an art gallery built "inside a sand dune" on the beach at the Beidaihe resort in North China's Hebei province, and its inaugural exhibition After Nature was unveiled on Oct 13.

The art museum, facing the Bohai Sea, comprises three outdoor and seven indoor galleries, all of which are connected like a string of caves of different sizes and shapes.

The exterior of the museum is covered by sand and local plants, hiding the white building in the dune.