Mermaid Museums

September 30, 2021 By Mermaids of Earth

The Curious Emergence of Two Mermaid Museums in the US

The Little Mermaid in Brazilia

The Department of the Navy in Brazil have a replica of Copenhagen’s statue of The Little Mermaid. An investigation as to how and when it got there was done by Eric Royer Stoner, and it seems it was donated to Brazil in 1960, and was placed just outside the Brazilian Navy Headquarters building. The mermaid statue […]

Belém’s Mermaid Fountain

There are 4 mermaid statues on the Chafariz das Sereias (Mermaid Fountain) in Praça da Sereia (Mermaid Plaza), in the city of Belém, Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon river. Each mermaid statue holds a cornucopia-like horn, which used to spout water when the fountain was installed around 1904. The upper level has four […]

Fuente de las Nereidas in Buenos Aires

La Fuente Monumental Las Nereidas (Fountain of Mermaids) was created in 1903 by Argentine sculptor Dolores Mora de Hernández (also known as Lola Mora) in white Carrara marble, representing nereids attending the birth of Venus. Lola was a pioneer in many fields, including that of being a female sculptor, holding patents related to mining, breaking […]

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