The seven statues will be installed at eye-level, so people can walk around them and interact with them. They are surrounded by a Wall of Honor inscribed with the names of 230 prominent Virginia women etched on glass, with room for more names to be added in the future.

The monument cost $3.7 million, which was raised through contributions from individuals, corporations and nonprofit foundations.

Each bronze statue required a financial investment of $200,000 and was sculpted by StudioEIS in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Ivan Schwartz, the director of StudioEIS, was on hand as the statues were being installed at the Capitol on Tuesday. He mentioned the lack of monuments to women across the United States and the importance of “filling the void.”

“Today we are changing, the symbols in America are changing. Ten years ago this might not have happened. Women, African-Americans and Native Americans were excised and not included in our public spaces of America. But that’s changing now, very rapidly,” Schwartz said.

He said the greatest challenge was historical accuracy and creating an accurate likeness of the women, due to the lack of photographs.