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It is true that Mount Auburn is first and foremost a cemetery, but it is also a National Historic Landmark, a botanical garden, an outdoor museum of art and architecture, and an important habitat for urban wildlife. Attend one of our many events and discover for yourself what makes this place so special!

 



Funding for programs has been provided in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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“From Cambridge to PBS” with former AiR Roberto Mighty

Mount Auburn Cemetery 580 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge

In 2014, Roberto Mighty became Mount Auburn Cemetery’s first Artist-in-Residence. His AiR project earth.sky, inspired by and filmed at Mount Auburn, is an immersive multimedia meditation on life, death, ritual, history, landscape, nature and culture. The traveling multi-screen exhibit evokes the contemporaneous life force of diverse individuals interred at Mount Auburn from its consecration in […]

Artist-in-Residence 10th Anniversary Celebration

Mount Auburn Cemetery 580 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge

In 2014, as a way of expanding our public programming, Mount Auburn became the first cemetery in the United States to establish an artist residency. The Artist-in-Residence program offers grants to local artists who are encouraged to create original, site-specific work that conveys a fresh and innovative perspective of Mount Auburn. In the last 10 […]

Artist-in-Residence 10th Anniversary Celebration

Mount Auburn Cemetery 580 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge

In 2014, as a way of expanding our public programming, Mount Auburn became the first cemetery in the United States to establish an artist residency. The Artist-in-Residence program offers grants to local artists who are encouraged to create original, site-specific work that conveys a fresh and innovative perspective of Mount Auburn. In the last 10 […]

Sensing Mount Auburn

Mount Auburn Cemetery 580 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge

The human body is remarkable in its ability to perceive the environment through a wide spectrum of senses. Smell, touch, and taste often have the strongest connections to memories, yet we almost exclusively document the environment through visual means. The power of these senses lies in their ability to evoke emotions and recollections, creating a […]

Making Art 4 Resilient Hearts: Learning Emotional Resilience Through Art

In this play-based workshop, kids ages 4-7 will be invited to explore complex emotions like grief through creative movement, poetry, and art-making.   With an art-making activity that encourages kids to develop their emotional vocabulary around feeling sad and saying goodbye, and a creative movement experience that uses music and the book Everywhere, Still as a […]

Sensing Mount Auburn: A Landscape in Motion

Mount Auburn Cemetery 580 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge

Mount Auburn Cemetery is not a static repository of memory but a living, evolving landscape shaped by movement, perception, and time. Sensing Mount Auburn: A Landscape in Motion presents the work of 24-25 Artists-in-Residence, Yufan Gao and Adam Molinski, in dialogue with a design studio they led at the Boston Architectural College. The work reimagines […]

Grief to Gratitude

Mount Auburn Cemetery 580 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge

Grief to Gratitude is a site-responsive dance performance around Auburn Lake, performed and choreographed by 24-25 Artist-in-Residence Lonnie Stanton with live musical accompaniment by Akili Jamal Haynes.  Grief to Gratitude explores different aspects of grief that are intrinsically tied to the human experience. The roaming performance includes five solos performed at five unique locations (note: […]

Grief to Gratitude

Mount Auburn Cemetery 580 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge

Grief to Gratitude is a site-responsive dance performance around Auburn Lake, performed and choreographed by 24-25 Artist-in-Residence Lonnie Stanton with live musical accompaniment by Akili Jamal Haynes.  Grief to Gratitude explores different aspects of grief that are intrinsically tied to the human experience. The roaming performance includes five solos performed at five unique locations (note: […]

Morning Writes

Mount Auburn Cemetery 580 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge

Morning Writes at Mount Auburn will help you jumpstart a new creative practice or re-energize your existing routine. Recharge your imagination. Shift your perspective. Nurture your creativity in nature. MORNING WRITES is an informal writing time and a chance to meet up with other creative thinkers. Each session will begin with a few writing prompts […]

Morning Writes

Mount Auburn Cemetery 580 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge

Morning Writes at Mount Auburn will help you jumpstart a new creative practice or re-energize your existing routine. Recharge your imagination. Shift your perspective. Nurture your creativity in nature. MORNING WRITES is an informal writing time and a chance to meet up with other creative thinkers. Each session will begin with a few writing prompts […]