DEFACED MONUMENTS

[Return to https://samdurant.net]

This is an archive of the research project from 2008.
An ongoing collection of statues, sculptures, memorials, markers and monuments that have been intentionally or unintentionally altered, damaged or destroyed as a political statement or during a political protest.
     
Statue of King William
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Date of incident: 1710, 1714, 1929		  
Statue of King George III
Bowling Green, New York City, United States
Date of incident: 07/09/1776 		 
Field Marshall Viscount Gough
Originally Dublin, Ireland. Re-erected Northumberland, United Kingdom
Dates of incidents: 12/24/1944, 11/1956, 07/03/1957		  
Ferdinand de Lesseps Statue
Port Said, Egypt
Date of incident: 12/24/1956		  
Statue of Kwame Nkrumah
Accra, Ghana, Africa
Date of incident: 02/24/1966		  
Statue of Miguel Alemán Valdés
Mexico City, Mexico
Date of Incident: 1968		  
Solar Totem #1
Kent, Ohio, United States
Date of incident: 05/04/1970		  
Shrine of Remembrance
Melbourne, Australia
Date of incident: 04/23/1971		  
Monument for the Heroes
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Date of incident: 08/07/1973		  
Statue of António de Oliveira Salazar
Santa Comba Dao, Portugal
Date of incidence: 1974		  
Statue of Sir George Grey
Albert Park, AucklandAustralia
Date of incident: 02/06/1987 		 
Franklin D. Roosevelt Statue
Panama City, Panama
Date of incident: 07/03/1987		  
Und Ihr habt doch gesiegt
Graz, Austria
Date of incident: 11/02/1988		  
Maitland Brown Memorial
Esplanade Park, Fremantle, Australia
Date of incident: 1990, 1995		  
Statue of Empress Josephine
Fort-de-France, Martinique
Date of incident: 1991		  
Statue of John Ballance
Moutoa Gardens (Pakaitore), Wanganui, New Zealand
Date of incident: 02/1995		  
Yagan Statue
Heirisson Island (near Perth), Australia
Date of incident: 09/1997, 2002		  
Christopher Columbus Statue
Honduras
Date of incident: 10/12/1997		  
Statue of Juan De Oñate
New Mexico, United States
Date of incident: 01/1998		  
Statue of Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Date of incident: 03/26/1999		  
Winston Churchill Statue
London, England
Dates of incidents: 05/01/2000, 01/13/2007		  
Christopher Columbus Statue
Junipero Serra Hall in Santa Barbara, California, United States
Date of incident: 08/02/2001		  
Christopher Columbus Statue
San Jose, California, United States
Date of incident: 03/08/2001		  
Statue of Mahatma Gandhi
Bheemgal (Nizamabad district), India
Date of incident: 10/02/2001
  
World War I Memorial
Kolkata, India
Date of incident: 10/2001		  
Statue of Margaret Thatcher
Isleworth, West London, England
Date of incident: 07/03/2002		  
Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain
Washington, D.C., United States
Date of incident: 10/14/2002		  
Christopher Columbus Monument
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Dates of incidents: 2002, 2004, 06/02/2006		  
Bordeaux Statue of Liberty
Bordeaux, France
Date of incident: 03/25/2003		  
Commonwealth War Graves Monument
Étaples, France
Date of incident: 04/01/2003		  
Monument to Joe Louis
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date of incident: 02/23/2004		  
Christopher Columbus Monument
Caracas, Venezuela
Date of incident: 10/12/2004		  
Irish National War Memorial Gardens
Dublin, Ireland
Date of incident: 11/11/2004		  
Statue of Josip Broz Tito
Krumrovec, Croatia
Date of incident: 12/26/04		  
Seán Russell Memorial
Dublin, Ireland
Date of incident: 12/31/2004		  
The George Bush Presidential Monument
Houston, Texas, United States
Date of incident: 02/10/2005		  
Chief Tshwane Statue
Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa, Africa
Date of incident: 07/12/06		  
John McDouall Stuart Monument
Darwin’s Raintree Park, Northern Territory, Australia
Date of incident: 11/2006		  
Statue of George Washington
New York City, United States
Date of incident: 11/06/2006		  
Lafayette Crosses Hillside Memorial
Lafayette, California, United States.
Dates of incidents: 11/14/2006, 12/21/2006		  
Statue of Guru Rinpoche
Samye monastery, (TAR) Tibet
Date of incident: 05/2007		  
Iraq War Memorial
Mt. Pleasanton, Michigan, United States.
Date of incident: 07/23/2007		  
Magic Carpet Ride
Cardiff, California, United States.
Date of incident: 08/20/2007		  
Vietnam War Veterans Memorial
Andover, Massachusetts, United States
Date of incident: 08/2007		  
Statue of Guru Rinpoche
Darchen, (TAR) Tibet
Date of incident: 09/28/2007		  
Trevi Fountain
Rome, Italy
Date of incident: 10/18/2007		  
Che Guevera monument
Mérida, Venezuela
Date of incident: 10/19/2007		  
Tippecanoe Battlefield Monument
Battleground, Indiana, United States
Date of incident: 11/07/2007		  
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Washington, D.C., United States
Date of incident: 11/08/2007		  
Veterans Memorial Park
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Date of incident: 03/19/2008