The Emigrant Monument, or Utvandrarmonumentet, is a bronze monument located in Hamnparken, Karlshamn. Inaugurated in 1959, it was commissioned by Kulturvårdsnämnden i Karlshamn and created by artist Axel Olsson. The monument depicts a man and a woman, looking forward and back respectively, symbolizing the thousands and thousands of Swedish men and women who left Sweden to settle on the other side of the Atlantic.
The statue's unveiling was attended by Vilhelm Moberg, upon whose emigration series Olsson drew inspiration. The monument is often associated with Moberg's fictional characters Karl-Oskar and Kristina, and the words of Moberg are inscribed on the pedestal: "I hemlandet har deras utvandrings äventyr ingått i sagan och legenden".
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