Hundreds of
replicas of the
Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) have been created worldwide. The original Statue of Liberty, designed by sculptor
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, is 151 feet tall and stands on a pedestal that is 154 feet tall, making the height of the entire sculpture 305 feet.
France
Paris
Musée d'Orsay
On the occasion of the
Exposition Universelle of 1900, sculptor
Frédéric Bartholdi crafted a 1/16 scale, 2.743 metre (nine-foot) version[1] of his Liberty Enlightening the World. It was cast in 1889 and he subsequently gave it to the
Musée du Luxembourg. In 1906, the statue was placed outside the museum in the
Jardin du Luxembourg, where it stood for over a century, until 2011. Since 2012 it has stood within the entrance hall to the
Musée d'Orsay, and a newly constructed bronze replica stands in its place in the Jardin du Luxembourg.[2]
Île aux Cygnes
This statue was given in 1889 to France by U.S. citizens[3] living in Paris to celebrate the
French Revolution three years after the main statue in New York was inaugurated. Originally, the statue was turned towards the east in order to face the Eiffel Tower. In 1937 it was turned towards the west so that it would be facing the original statue in New York. It is one of three replicas in Paris.
The 2.86-metre (9.4 ft) tall original plaster
maquette finished in 1878 by Auguste Bartholdi that was used to make the statue in New York is in the
Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris.[6][7] This original plaster model was bequeathed by the artist's widow in 1907,[8] together with part of the artist's estate.
On the square outside the Musée des Arts et Métiers's entrance was a bronze copy made from the plaster maquette, number 1 from an original edition of 12, made by the museum and cast by Susse Fondeur Paris. It was this replica that was shipped to America under a joint effort by the
Embassy of France in the United States, the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers and the shipping company CMA CGM Group.[9] After spending time on Ellis Island for
Independence Day 2021, it now resides at the
French ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C.[10]
Flame of Liberty
A life-size copy of the torch, Flame of Liberty, can be seen above the entrance to the
Pont de l'Alma tunnel near the
Champs-Élysées in Paris. It was given to the city as a return gift in honour of the centennial celebration of the statue's dedication. Since it is above the Pont de l'Alma car tunnel in which
Princess Diana died, the torch became an unofficial memorial to the princess.[11]
Barentin
There is a 13.5 m (44 feet) polyester replica in the northwest of France, in the small town of Barentin near
Rouen. It was made for the 1969 French film, Le Cerveau ("The Brain"), directed by Gérard Oury and featuring actors
Jean-Paul Belmondo and
Bourvil.[12]
Bordeaux
There is a 2.5 m (8.2 ft) replica of the statue in the city of
Bordeaux. The first Bordeaux statue was seized and melted down by the Nazis in World War II. The statue was replaced in 2000 and a plaque was added to commemorate the victims of the
11 September terrorist attacks. On the night of 25 March 2003, unknown vandals poured red paint and gasoline on the replica and set it on fire. The vandals also cracked the pedestal of the plaque. The mayor of Bordeaux, former prime minister
Alain Juppé, condemned the attack.
Colmar
A 12 m (39 ft 4 in) replica of the Statue of Liberty in
Colmar, the city of Bartholdi's birth, was dedicated on 4 July 2004, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death. It stands at the north entrance of the city.[13] The Bartholdi Museum in Colmar contains numerous models of various sizes made by Bartholdi during the process of designing the statue.[14]
Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer
Frédéric Bartholdi donated a copy of the Statue of Liberty to the town square of
Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer.
Near
Chaumont, Haute Marne, is a miniature replica in the flag plaza of the former
Chaumont Air Base. This was the home of the US 48th Tactical Fighter Wing, now based at Lakenheath, England, with its own statue at the flag plaza. The 48th TFW is the only USAF wing with a name: "The Statue of Liberty Wing".
Another example is of a Liberty Enlightening the World replica in
Châteauneuf-la-Forêt, near the city of
Limoges in the area of
Haute-Vienne,
Limousin. There is another "original" Bartholdi replica at
Roybon (near Grenoble)
In Graz, standing between the
Opera House and the NextLiberty Theater, stands a steel structure built out of steel beams, that depict the original size of the statue of liberty, before the plates of the final form were being put into place. Instead of torch of flame, this depiction is holding a sword in extended left arm and a sphere in the right arm representing the world.
A 35 m (115 ft) copy is in the German
Heidepark Soltau theme park, located on a lake with cruising Mississippi steamboats. It weighs 28 metric tons (31 short tons), is made of plastic foam on a steel frame with polyester cladding, and was designed by the Dutch artist Gerla Spee.[16]
Ireland
A green painted replica of the Statue of Liberty can be found near Mulnamina More,
County Donegal, Ireland.[17]
Kosovo
A replica stands atop the Hotel Victory in
Pristina, Kosovo.[18]
Today the Hotel is closed and the Police from Kosovo used the building.
Netherlands
A 33 ft (10 m) replica has its temporary location in the Dutch city of
Assen. The statue bears characteristic features that represent the culture and landscape of the region, like a can of beans instead of the original torch. The replica, by sculptor Natasja Bennink, was on display for the duration of an exhibition on American Realism in the
Drents Museum until 27 May 2018.
Norway
A smaller replica is in the Norwegian village of
Visnes, where the copper used in the original statue was mined.[19] A replica is also on the facade of a pub in
Bleik, county of
Nordland[20][21]
Cadaqués, a small village that was residence of
Salvador Dalí, has an unusual version, with both arms and hands up holding torches. It is on top of a small tourism information office.
Ukraine
There is a unique "sitting" Statue of Liberty in the
Ukrainian city of
Lviv. It is a sculpture on a dome of the house (15,
Liberty Avenue [
uk]) built by architect Yuriy Zakharevych and decorated by sculptor
Leandro Marconi in 1874–1891.
United Kingdom
A 17 ft (5.2 m), 9,200 kg (9.2 tons) replica stood atop the Liberty Shoe factory in
Leicester, England, until 2002 when the building was demolished. The statue was put into storage while the building was replaced. The statue, which dates back to the 1920s, was initially going to be put back on the replacement building, but was too heavy, so in December 2008 following restoration, it was placed on a pedestal near Liberty Park Halls of Residence on a traffic island, "Liberty Circus", close to where it originally stood.[22][23]
A 10-foot-high (3.0 m) replica is in the stairwell of a bowling alley building in Warrington, England. It used to be above the entrance of a restaurant nearby.
There is also a small replica located at
RAF Lakenheath, England, at the base flag plaza, made from leftover copper from the original.[24]
North America
Canada
In
Coquitlam,
British Columbia a small replica stands on Delestre Avenue just east of North Road. The statue was removed in 2019 when the hotel behind it was demolished.[25]
Mexico
In
Campeche, Mexico, there is a small replica in the small town of
Palizada.
In
Durango, Mexico, a small replica is in Parque Guadiana. This park also has other small reproductions such as the
Eiffel Tower and
Taj Mahal.
From 1902 to 2002, visitors to midtown Manhattan were occasionally disoriented by what seemed to be an impossibly nearby view of the statue. They were seeing a 30-foot-high (9.1 m) replica located at 43 West 64th Street atop the Liberty Warehouse.[26][27] In February 2002, the statue was removed by the building's owners to allow the building to be expanded.[28] It was donated to the Brooklyn Museum of Art, which installed it in its sculpture garden in October 2005 with plans to restore it on site in spring of 2006.[29][30]
A bronze sculpture of the Statue of Liberty is on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[31]
Duluth, Minnesota, has a small copy on the south corner of the
Duluth Entertainment Convention Center property, in the center of a clearing surrounded by pine trees where it may be passed unnoticed. It was presented to the city by some of Bartholdi's descendants residing in Duluth.[32][33]
The
Boy Scouts of America celebrated their fortieth anniversary in 1950 with the theme of "
Strengthen the Arm of Liberty".[34] Between 1949 and 1952, approximately two hundred 100-inch (2.5 m) replicas of the statue, made of stamped copper, were purchased by Boy Scout troops and donated in 39 states in the U.S. and several of its possessions and territories. The project was the brainchild of Kansas City businessman J.P. Whitaker, who was then Scout Commissioner of the
Kansas City Area Council. The copper statues were manufactured by Friedley-Voshardt Co. (Chicago, Illinois) and purchased through the Kansas City Boy Scout office by those wanting one. The statues are approximately 8+1⁄2 feet (2.6 m) tall without the base, are constructed of sheet copper, weigh 290 pounds (130 kg), and originally cost $350 plus freight. The mass-produced statues are not great art nor meticulously accurate (a conservator notes that "her face isn't as mature as the real Liberty. It's rounder and more like a little girl's"), but they are cherished, particularly since
9/11. Many have been lost or destroyed, but preservationists have been able to account for about a hundred of them, and BSA Troop 101 of Cheyenne, Wyoming, has collected photographs of over 100 of them.[35][36] They are commonly installed at city halls, libraries, and schools. One of these statues was sent to the Philippines. After some years at the mouth of the Pasig River, Manila, it was kept in a store room at the Scout Reservation, Makiling, Laguna, for about two decades. It is now stored at the national office of the
Boy Scouts of the Philippines, Manila.
A replica of the original statue was unveiled on 12 October 2011, at 667 Madison Avenue in
Manhattan. Its owner, billionaire
Leonard N. Stern, purchased it after reading about it in the local news. The replica is one of only 12 cast from the original mold created by
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi using digital surface scanning and
lost-wax casting methods, and is the only one currently on public display. The statue itself is 9 feet tall and 15 feet including the pedestal on which it stands.[38]
There is a half-size replica at the
New York-New York Hotel & Casino in
Las Vegas, Nevada.[39][40][41][42] In April 2011, the U.S. Postal Service announced that three billion postage stamps mistakenly based on a photograph of this replica were produced and would be sold to the public.[43] In November 2013, the statue's sculptor, Robert Davidson, filed a copyright infringement suit against the U.S. government.[44]
Another small replica exists in Las Vegas on Route 589 near Arville St in a plaza parking lot.
The city of
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, erected a replacement bronze reproduction standing 9 ft (2.7 m) tall in McKennan Park atop the original pedestal of a long-vanished wooden replica.[45]
A 36-foot-tall (11 m) bronze replica, accurately based on
Bartholdi'sLiberty Enlightening the World, stands in
Vestavia Hills, a suburb of
Birmingham, Alabama. It was cast in 1956 at the Société Antoine Durenne foundry in Somerville, Haut Marne, France, for placement in 1958 atop the
Liberty National Life Insurance Company building in downtown Birmingham.[26] It was relocated and placed on a 60-foot-tall (18 m) granite pedestal adjacent to
Interstate 459 in 1989.[46][47][48]
Two 30-foot (9.1 m) copper replicas by sculptor
Leo Lentelli stand atop the Liberty National Bank Building[26] in
Buffalo, New York, nearly 108 m (354 ft) above street level.[49][50]
A 25-foot-tall (7.6 m) replica sits on the ruins of the late
Marysville Bridge (erected on a platform (pier)) in the Dauphin Narrows of
Susquehanna River north of
Harrisburg. The replica was built by local activist
Gene Stilp on July 2, 1986; it was made of Venetian blinds and stood 18 feet (5.5 m) tall. Six years later, after it was destroyed in a windstorm, it was rebuilt by Stilp and other local citizens, of wood, metal, glass and fiberglass, to a height of 25 feet (7.6 m).[51][52][53]
A
Lego replica of the Statue of Liberty consisting of 2882 bricks and standing 0.9 m (3.0 ft) is a popular sculpture among Lego enthusiasts. The statue went out of production, but due to popular demand was returned to sale.[54]
A 1/12 replica of the Statue of Liberty made essentially out of junk stands at the intersection of
US 280 and
US 341 in
McRae, Georgia. The head is made out of a stump from a nearby swamp, the arm holding the torch is made from
styrofoam and the hand holding the book is actually an electric lineman's glove. The town's
Lions Club erected the replica in 1986 during the statue's centennial.[55]
An 11-foot (3.4 m) miniature Statue of Liberty (holding a Bible instead of a tablet) currently stands atop a 15-foot (4.6 m) pedestal outside the Liberty Recycling plant in
San Marcos, California. The company was named after the statue, which has been moved throughout
northern San Diego County for over 80 years, originating at the Liberty Hotel in
Leucadia, in the 1920s.[56]
A 25-foot (7.6 m) replica of the statue, lofting a Christian cross, holding the Ten Commandments, and named the Statue of Liberation through Christ, was erected by a predominantly African American church in
Memphis, Tennessee, on 4 July 2006.[57]
A small replica stands on the grounds of the
Cherokee Capitol Building in
Tahlequah, Oklahoma, a gift from the local
Boy Scouts in 1950 (presumably as part of the above-mentioned national Boy Scout celebration).[58]
Fargo, North Dakota, also had a replica of the Statue of Liberty on the corner of Main Avenue and 2nd Street at the entrance of the Main Avenue bridge, which was reported stolen on July 26, 2019.[59][60]
A 1/6-scale replica (≈50 feet including pedestal) stands in a parking lot of a strip mall in
Milwaukie, Oregon, off McLoughlin Blvd at 4255 SE Roethe Rd.[62]
A replica of the Statue of Liberty is located in the downtown area of New Castle, Pennsylvania.[66]
A replica of the Statue of Liberty is located near the Lincoln High School in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania.[66]
A bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty resides in Neenah, Wisconsin. It was cast in California by the Great American Bronze Works. This version of the Statue of Liberty is 14 feet, 6 inches tall. It is 10 percent the size of the original.[67][68]
A replica approximately the same size as an adult person is located alongside Highway 80 at the west end of
Forney, Texas. An earlier installation stood from 1986 until May 2016, when it was removed to make way for highway construction. As of November, 2019, it has been replaced in nearly the same spot, this time painted a darker green and with a illuminated torch.[69]
There is a statue of liberty replica in the small town of Burns, Oregon at the park called Washington park.
A small statue stands on the grounds of the Chimbarazo Hospital Museum on the Richmond National Battlefield in
Richmond, Virginia[70]
In Lake Michigan campground in
Wisconsin, There will be a new sculpture park, The first artifact will be the Statue of Liberty, It will be designed by many architects from
New York,
Pennsylvania,
Florida,
France,
Minnesota, and of course, Wisconsin, It will be under construction on June 5, 2020.
A small statue stands inside “The Pizza Place” in Layton, Utah.
South America
Argentina
In
Buenos Aires there is a small iron replica in Barrancas de Belgrano Square, cast by Bartholdi from the same mould as those cast in Paris; although it is much smaller. It was inaugurated on 3 October 1886, 25 days before the one in New York. Another replica was bought by the government and placed in a school, Colegio Nacional Sarmiento, about the same date.[71] There is another replica in Plaza Libertad (Liberty Square) in the city of
Villa Aberastain,
San Juan. This one arrived at the city in 1909 due to a confusion since it had to be shipped to San Juan, Puerto Rico instead. There are also two cheaper non-metallic replicas; one is 6 m tall, located in the "New York" Casino in
San Luis and the other crowns a commercial gallery, "Galería de Fabricantes", in
Munro, a city in the northeast suburbs of Buenos Aires.[72]
A small-scale cast metal replica can be found in
Maceió, the capital of
Alagoas State, in northeast Brazil. The replica is in front of a building constructed in 1869 as the seat of the Conselho Provincial (Provincial Council), and which today is the Museu da Imagem e do Som de Alagoas (Museum of Image and Sound of Alagoas). This replica is possibly a casting produced by the
Fundição Val d'Osne [
pt][74] in France, as in the Praça Lavenere Machado (formerly Praça Dois Leões) on the opposite side of the museum, there are four somewhat larger-than-life size cast metal statues of wild animals, at least one of which is embossed with the name of the foundry. These castings and the replica all appear to be made of similar material and to be of similar age. It is also probable that they are near contemporaries of the actual Statue of Liberty.
9°40′22″S35°43′20″W / 9.6728563°S 35.7223114°W / -9.6728563; -35.7223114
Also, there is a small replica of the statue in
Belém, in front of a Belém Importados store, near the city's port.
Ecuador
In
Guayaquil, a little replica gives the name of "New York" to a neighborhood in the Valle Alto area.
Peru
In
Lima the New York Casino in the
Jesús María District has a small replica in the main entrance. The casino is a tribute to the state of New York and the USA.
A small replica can be found in
Haw Par Villa, a theme park.
China
Guangzhou
Siting on top of the memorial tomb of "72 Martyrs of Huanghuagang" (see
Huanghuagang Uprising). The current one was re-built in 1981.
Beijing
During the
Tiananmen Square protest of 1989, Chinese student demonstrators in Beijing built a 10 m (33 ft) image called the Goddess of Democracy, which sculptor Tsao Tsing-yuan said was intentionally "dissimilar" to the Statue of Liberty to avoid being "too openly pro-American." (See article for a list of replicas of that statue.)
As early as January 1945, there were already news of a campaign that would help erect a Statue of Liberty replica in the
Philippines. The said monument was supposed to be sponsored by The Chicago Daily Times whose goal was "to commemorate one of the great epics in the struggle for human freedom–the liberation of the Philippines."
Fast forward to 1950, the Boy Scouts of America was celebrating its 40th anniversary. Jack P. Whitaker, then Scout Commissioner of the Kansas City Area Council, had earlier suggested the creation and distribution of several Statue of Liberty replicas to all American states and territories, including the Philippines.
The eight-foot statues, which were cast in bronze, were distributed all over the U.S. and the world from 1949 to 1951. Almost 200 replicas were delivered to the 39 states of the U.S. and countries such as Panama and Puerto Rico. The
Boy Scouts of the Philippines, on the other hand, received its own replica in the early part of 1950.
The statues were donated by the Boy Scouts of America as "an expression of scout brotherhood and goodwill." Their 40th anniversary theme was "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty."
Miniature versions of the statue were also given as gifts. The Philippines became the first independent nation to receive one of the 4,000 eight-inch statues from the Boy Scouts of America. In April 1950, the said statue was officially given by Chief Scout Executive Arthur A. Shuck to
Carlos P. Romulo, then chief of the Philippine Mission to the United Nations.
In the Philippines, several places were suggested as the site where the eight-foot bronze replica would be erected. The task of choosing the perfect site was delegated to the National Urban Planning Commission, and among those it considered were “Engineer Island, atop the proposed reviewing stand on the
Rizal Park, and on the center island rotunda between the
Old Legislative building and
Manila City Hall.”
In the end, the
Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) erected the statue just outside
Intramuros. As the icon of the United States, the replica of Lady Liberty would survive several attacks by student protesters in the 1960s. It remained standing until the early 1970s, when the BSP decided to transfer it to the Scout Reservation in
Mt. Makiling which would serve as the statue's home for two decades or so.
In a 2002 article published by the Philippine Star, then BSP PR head Nixon Canlapan revealed that the Statue of Liberty was eventually moved and stored at the BSP headquarters on Concepcion Street (now Natividad Almeda-Lopez) in Ermita, Manila.
Turns out, the American-sponsored replica was not the first Lady Liberty in
Manila. In the 1930s, one of Manila's biggest shopping stores at that time became the talk of the town not just for its products but also for its unique multi-story building. Located in Juan Luna Street, the L.R. Aguinaldo's Emporium had an Art Deco facade featuring two contrasting statues:
Andres Bonifacio on the right and the Statue of Liberty on the left.
Established by Philippine retailing pioneer Leopoldo R. Aguinaldo, the store would later become known as the Aguinaldo's Department Store. After the war, Leopoldo's son Francisco took over the business and the store was moved to Echague.
The Echague branch in the 1950s was known for introducing its customers to quality products both from the Philippines and abroad. It also commissioned young interior designers to update the store's furniture section. Thus, the store catapulted the careers of famous designers like Myra Cruz, Edgar Ramirez, and Bonnie Ramos, among others. Aguinaldo's succumbed to the competition and closed in the 1960s. The original building in Juan Luna Street still stands, along with both the Bonifacio and the Liberty statues.
Since the creation of the Liberty statues in Intramuros and Juan Luna Street, other Philippine provinces soon followed suit. Statue of Liberty replicas in can be found in
Pangasinan and as far as
Camp John Hay amphitheater in
Baguio.
Thailand
The Mini Siam and Mini Europe
model village, in
Pattaya, has a miniature Statue of Liberty amongst others.
Taiwan
There are at least two Statue of Liberty replicas (greater than 30 feet in height) in
Taiwan. These two statues are in the cities of
Keelung and
Taipei.[79]
Vietnam
From 1887 to 1945,
Hanoi was home to another copy of the statue. Measuring 2.85 m (9 ft 4 in) tall, it was erected by the French colonial government after being sent from France for an exhibition. It was known to locals unaware of its history as Tượng Bà đầm xòe [
vi] (Statue of the Western lady wearing dress). When the French lost control of
French Indochina during World War II, the statue was toppled on 1 August 1945, after being deemed a vestige of the colonial government along with other statues erected by the French.[80]
Australia
A 30-foot replica was once found at the
Westfield Marion shopping complex in
Adelaide, South Australia. The statue was demolished in 2019.
^Belot, Robert; Bermond, Daniel (2004). Bartholdi. Paris: Éditions Perrin.
ISBN978-2-26201-991-4.
^E. L. Kallop, Jr., Images of Liberty. Models and reductions of the Statue of Liberty 1867–1917, Special Centennial Exhibition 25 Janvier–15 Février 1986
^Legal instrument prepared by M. Demanche, notary, on 1 March 1907 (Inv13768ter in the Museum archives).
^"Les Statues dans le monde". Archived from
the original on February 10, 2006. Retrieved May 28, 2006.: image and description of the Barentin replica from the personal website of a Statue of Liberty enthusiast.
^"Flickriver Photo". Flickriver.com. August 15, 2004. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
^Smith, Morgan (July 25, 2003).
"Investors should take a closer look at Kosovo". Denver Business Journal. It was quite a change to arrive in Pristina, where the main street is named after Bill Clinton and my hotel, the Hotel Victory, has a replica of the Statue of Liberty built on its rooftop.