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!
Mount Auburn is proud to participate in in MCC’s Card to Culture Program. Click here to learn more.
Funding for programs has been provided in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Head to Washington Tower on Sunday, June 29th from 12-3pm to take home a customized, improv poem by current Artist-in-Residence Emily Duggan! No registration needed. “Mount Auburn Cemetery: Memory Poems” “Mount Auburn Cemetery: Memory Poems” invites visitors to explore and preserve their memories of Mount Auburn through poetry written for them on the spot. Throughout the […]
Deep Listening encourages us to drop into presence with ourselves and with others. This practice (described by composer Pauline Oliveros as “listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear”) can become a way of being in a new kind of relation to ourselves and our environments. Through this multi-sensory practice of attunement to […]
Head to Auburn Lake on Sunday, July 27th from 10am-4pm to take home a customized, improv poem by current Artist-in-Residence Emily Duggan! (Emily will go on a 1-hour lunch break from 12-1pm.) No registration needed. “Mount Auburn Cemetery: Memory Poems” “Mount Auburn Cemetery: Memory Poems” invites visitors to explore and preserve their memories of Mount Auburn […]
“Death is for the living and not for the dead so much.” - Floyd McClure in Gates of Heaven The Coolidge returns to Mount Auburn Cemetery to present our popular Cemetery Cinema outdoor film program! REGISTER ON THE COOLIDGE WEBSITE HERE >> Tickets $40 for double feature. This incredibly unique screening experience will take place at […]
Join us online Wednesday, September 3rd at 6:00pm for a panel discussion with Mount Auburn's 2025-2026 Artists-in-Residence, Emily Duggan (poet), Juls Gabs (digital painter), Lia Pikus (musician/composer), and wife and wife team Cara Giaimo (nature writer) & Lilia Kilburn (filmmaker). In a conversation led by our Public Events Team, we will chat with the artists about […]
Head to Bigelow Lawn on Saturday, Sep 13th from 11am-3pm to take home a customized, improv poem by current Artist-in-Residence Emily Duggan! No registration needed. “Mount Auburn Cemetery: Memory Poems” “Mount Auburn Cemetery: Memory Poems” invites visitors to explore and preserve their memories of Mount Auburn through poetry written for them on the spot. Throughout the […]
Grief is a complex and multifaceted experience which includes a wide range of emotions. The collage process provides us with an intuitive way to explore this complexity and nuance as we sort through images and words, choosing those that are most resonant to us and creating narratives from assembling the disparate pieces together. In this […]
Join Education & Digital Content Manager Corinne Elicona on an exploration of Mount Auburn’s Colonial Revival gravestone monuments. After the 1876 Centennial, the United States saw a revival of it’s colonial past. REGISTER HERE>> The Colonial Revival Movement was a national expression of early North American culture, primarily the built and artistic environments of […]
Want to learn some very basic ways for drawing the nature you know and love here in Mount Auburn? Join illustrator Clare Walker Leslie in one or all of these Sunday afternoon sessions. Appropriate for ages 10 and up, teens and adults. No previous drawing experience needed. Bring a drawing pad, several pencils and an […]
Participants will be guided through an hour-long musical meditation led by 25-26 Artist-in-Residence Lia Pikus. REGISTER HERE>> Deep Listening encourages us to drop into presence with ourselves and with others. This practice (described by composer Pauline Oliveros as “listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear”) can become a way of being in […]