The William Bloye Mermaid at the University of Birmingham can be seen all over the university campus. She is part of the university crest, which in turn comes from the coat of arms designed for himself by Sir Josiah Mason, the self-made millionaire who founded the university. In 1960, the University added the William Bloye […]
Scotland’s Mermaid of The North
The Mermaid of the North sits on a rock near Balintore, Scotland. At high tide she is half submerged, and at low tide (up to 14′ lower than high tide) she is clearly dry on her rock. The rock itself has been named ‘Clach Dubh’, meaning ‘black rock’ in Gaelic. Steve Hayward created the 10’ […]
Mermaid Syrenka – Protector of Warsaw
The city of Warsaw in Poland has for five centuries had a protector – the mermaid Syrenka. The mermaid is found everywhere in Warsaw – on the Warsaw Coat of Arms, on official buildings and vehicles, and in at least 3 prominent locations as a sculpture of the mermaid with her sword and her shield. […]
The Mermaids of Drøbak
The Mermaids of Drøbak – near Oslo in Norway – were created in bronze in 1999 by Reidar Finsrud and were then installed on the pier at the town’s marina. One of the mermaids seems to be rinsing out her hair, while the other two seem engaged in a lively discussion. Factory owner Ingeborg Lane commissioned […]
Havis Amanda mermaid statue
You will find this sculpture from 1906, the Havis Amanda mermaid statue by Carl Wilhelm ‘Ville’ Vallgren, in Market Square in the southern part of Helsinki, Finland. The sculpture was named Merenneito (Mermaid) by the sculptor. He sculpted the bronze mermaid statue while living in Paris in 1906. A young Parisian named Marcelle Delquini was the model for […]
Trafalgar Square Mermaids
The Trafalgar Square mermaids are part of two large fountains in Trafalgar Square in London. The fountains commemorate Admirals Jellycoe and Beatty, with fantastic sculptures of mermaids, tritons and dolphins. Sir Edwin Lutyens designed the sculptures for the fountains in 1935, and the sculptures were created by William McMillan and Sir Charles Wheeler by 1939, but not installed until 1948 due to World War […]
Mermaid at Wookey Hole
You will find this mermaid at Wookey Hole near Wells, in the southwest of England. Wookey Hole is an actual hole in the ground – sort of in the shape you would expect if a meteor or large space ship crashed into the ground at a shallow angle. It is about 1000′ long and 200′ wide, and […]
Mermaid Miranda of Dartmouth
The mermaid Miranda of Dartmouth was inspired by the 1948 film “Miranda“, in which British actress Glynis Johns played the role of the mermaid Miranda. It is located on a private residence by the Dart Estuary, near Dartmouth Castle on the west bank of the River Dart. The life-size mermaid statue is known as Miranda, Mermaid of […]
Carlsberg’s Little Mermaid
If you visit Carlsberg Breweries in Copenhagen, you will encounter this half-size copy of Edvard Eriksen’s sculpture of The Little Mermaid. What is a mermaid doing at Carlsberg Breweries? She is there because the original world-famous statue of The Little Mermaid was commissioned in 1909 by Carlsberg’s owner Carl Jacobsen. A ballet based on the […]
Denmark’s Little Mermaid
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 […]
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