The 32,000sq m Datong Art Museum features exhibition spaces, a children's gallery, group entrance lobby, café, restaurant and support spaces – which are arranged around sunken courtyards to draw in daylight. A vast open exhibition space named the Grand Gallery will be used for artists' commissions – stretching 37 m high and spanning 80 m the flexible space can be accessed directly by an articulated 40-foot container vehicle to install large-scale sculptures, stage and lighting equipment.