The new International Art Museum of America (IAMA) is set to open its doors to the public in San Francisco's Central Market Art District, US, on 15 October.

Waterfall gardens; meeting and event spaces; and a gift shop will form part of the 21,000sq ft (1,951sq m) IAMA, which will provide a new non-profit, permanent art attraction.

According to IAMA, its mission is to offer visitors the chance to view the "most beautiful and precious" works in a bid to promote spiritual health and cultural development.

Works by HH Dorje Chang Buddha III; Professor Yu Hua Shouzhi Wang; Wang Zhibin; and Guo Ruyu are among the first to go on display at the new attraction.

A spokesperson for IAMA said: "Each of the art works displayed or collected by the museum has been approved by a majority vote of the museum's board of directors."