M WOODS is a private, not-for-profit art museum founded by collectors Lin Han and Wanwan Lei in Beijing’s 798 Art District. Housed in a former munitions factory dating from the 1950s, M WOODS opened to the public in 2014 with a permanent collection based on the founders’ private collection of international contemporary art. In 2015, collector Michael Xufu Huang joined the museum as a co-founder.

Each year, in addition to showing the permanent collection, M WOODS presents major single-artist and group exhibitions– always one exhibition at a time, reflecting the museum’s uniquely focused commitment to artists. In the same spirit, M WOODS maintains a studio-style artist residency space within the museum building itself, thus actively fostering the creation of new contemporary art alongside its curatorial platform.

Through ongoing educational programming and publications, the museum’s M MEASURES initiative seeks to promote the appreciation of the art of our time within China. In 2015, M WOODS received official not-for-profit status from the government in acknowledgment of its cultural services to the Chinese public.