I started writing about mermaid statues around the world about 10 years ago, creating pages and writing blogs about each of the sculptures I found. And yet somehow I never wrote a blog post specifically about the most famous of all the mermaid statues – the sculpture of The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen, Denmark. Yet […]

The Big Mermaid was commissioned by Danish restaurateur Peter Bech and installed in 2006. Bech commissioned it from China, carved in granite. It was originally installed a few hundred feet from the famous statue of The Little Mermaid, but in 2018 it was moved to the city of Dragør, some 10 miles south. The sculpture […]

This mermaid in the town of Èze on the French Riviera is walking amongst us humans, carrying her mermaid skin and tail over her shoulder.  Èze goes back in time about 4000 years, which makes sense considering the environmental beauty of this area and its views of the Mediterranean Sea.  Èze is one of the […]

This Rhine River mermaid is dorsal-finned and unusual in many ways. She is stunningly austere and ascetic, seemingly adapted perfectly to the strong currents of the Rhine River where it flows through Rheinfelden. She has the strong and prominent dorsal fin, webbed hands and almost human legs that end in large fins. Additionally there is […]

The city of Mainz in Germany has this fabulous sculpture if the “Fishwife” mermaid. It is tucked into a corner where the Gaustraße street curves and a small fountain was created. Elsa Montag created the petite sculpture in about 1940. The city of Mainz purchased it in 1943 and then installed it in a small […]

You will find a gorgeous statue of Hafmeyjan – icelandic for mermaid – on a granite block in Reykjavik. It has been moved several times over the years, and has been recast from the original mold when the first cast was damaged. Icelandic sculptor Nína Sæmundsson created the mermaid sculpture in 1948 in bronze and […]

This incredible sculpture of the mermaid Atlante in Port Canto in the famous French city of Cannes was created by Amaryllis. It was installed on a rock in the water in the year 2000. She is seen by everyone who enters and exits the port, and she is there specifically to remind everyone to stop […]

The fairy tale of the mermaid Undine is immortalized in the Undine Fountain and its sculpture of Undine and the other characters in the story. The sculpture was created in 1903 by sculptor Josef Valentin Kassin to commemorate the completion of the city water pipeline system in Baden, Austria. The statue of Undine is made of Italian […]