The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, or the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, as it is also known, stands on the previous site of the Gate of China that was demolished in 1954.
Although Mao requested to be cremated, he was embalmed after his death in 1976. His body is displayed in a crystal coffin and people line up every day to view his body and pay tribute.
People from all over China contributed to the design of the Mausoleum as well as to the materials themselves including granite from Sichuan, pebbles from Nanjing and rock samples from Mount Everest.
The sculptures in front of the museum, sometimes called the Workers' Revolutionary Statues, are part of a group of four "teams", two in front and two in back of the building. Altogether there are 62 figures measuring 3.5m. 
The entire group of sculptures took 5 months to complete by over 100 sculptors from 18 different provinces in China.
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