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About Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery plays a unique, multi-faceted role within Greater Boston as a vibrant urban green space, active cemetery, public garden, and historic site. A National Historic Landmark, Mount Auburn Cemetery’s 175 acres are open to the public at no cost, 365 days a year, and welcome more than 200,000 visitors annually. Founded in 1831 as America’s first “rural” cemetery, its reputation grew quickly both as a choice for burial by Greater Boston’s leaders, and as a place where the public was encouraged to enjoy natural beauty, attracting locals as well as tourists from around the world. Today, Mount Auburn is redefining what it means to be a historic landscape and cemetery in the twenty-first century.
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2024
The Complicated Ecology of Cemeteries
Mount Auburn Cemetery’s Artist-in-Residence Program: A Decade of Inspiring Art, Nature, and Reflection
From Snakeroot to Salamanders, Life Thrives in Cemeteries
When Did Cemeteries Become Tourist Attractions and Hot-Date Spots?
Listen: An artist resurrected Mount Auburn Cemetery's defunct pipe organ
Mount Auburn Cemetery Adds New Pedestrians Gates in Effort to Welcome the Community
With new pedestrian entrances, Mount Auburn Cemetery wants to become a more lively green space
Matthew Stephens aims to open up Mount Auburn Cemetery
Boston Globe, April 29, 2024 (requires Boston Globe subscription)>>
“We really envision this as a symbolic gesture that the organization is open and welcoming,” Stephens said. “It’s really the first part of a transformative vision to really galvanize Mount Auburn as a community resource. . . . There are significantly more public events at Mount Auburn, at a completely different scale.”
A musician's invitation to meditate on death at Mount Auburn Cemetery
Early blooms at Mount Auburn Cemetery highlight climate change concerns
2023
2022
World’s Greatest Cemeteries S1 Ep1- Mount Auburn Cemetery (PBS, 2022)>>
Luna moths grace the landscape at Mount Auburn Cemetery (requires Boston Globe subscription)>>
Reflections on a year at Mount Auburn Cemetery (Cambridge Day, October 8, 2022)>>
Natural Burials, Human Composting: Going Green Even in Death (NBC Boston, October 4, 2022)>>
2021
2019
2018
Serenity and Beauty Residing in One Place (Watertown Tab, August 16, 2018)>>
Billerica Man Heads Mt. Auburn Cremation Department (Watertown Tab, September 4, 2018)
He Works with the Dead for a Living at Mount Auburn’s Crematory (Boston Globe, September 20, 2018)
The Death Positive Movement’s Major Mass Moment (Dig Boston, September 25, 2018)
Yes, there is a ‘Mount Auburn,’ and here’s how it got its name (WBUR, November 1, 2018)
Revitalizing Mount Auburn Cemetery Chapel (Harvard Gazette, November 27, 2018)
Bigelow Chapel Reopens its Doors to the Public (Watertown Tab, December 3, 2018)
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