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 […]
The Big Mermaid
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 […]
The Ama Mermaid in Èze
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 […]
The Mermaids of Edinburgh
You will find eight mermaids of Edinburgh in Ross Fountain, in the Princes Street Gardens. The location is magnificent, with the lush greenery of the park and the direct view of the Edinburgh Castle up high. The fountain was made of cast iron in a foundry near Paris, in the early 1860s. The figures were […]
St. Anna Rhine River Mermaid
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 […]
