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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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Mount Auburn is happy to assist members of the press with stories, interviews, fact checking, and photos. For press requests, please contact media@mountauburn.org or +1 617 607 1986.
2026
Opinion: A lively time at the death cafe
Camberville: Mount Auburn Cemetery debuts new welcome center
Cemetery Cinema is back at Mount Auburn
For a summer staycation, Cantabrigians flocked to Mount Auburn Cemetery
What Mount Auburn Cemetery teaches the living
A novel book club comes back to life at Mount Auburn Cemetery
Juneteenth ride, walking tour to honor cyclist Kittie Knox
Celebrating Kittie Knox, the Black cyclist who rode her way through the barriers of the 1800s
22 bucket list activities in Greater Boston, for visitors (and locals, too)
Mount Auburn Cemetery becomes first in US to use all battery-powered equipment
Mount Auburn Cemetery's new artists-in-residence are eclectic
Dancing through a cemetery and poems for a Vodou spirit are coming in Mount Auburn residencies
Searching for ‘the singer, the song, and the sung’
Boston Globe (April 9, 2026, requires Boston Globe subscription)>>
Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/Boston Globe staff
Cherry blossoms, magnolias, and beyond. A colorful spring journey gets underway in the Boston area.
Trailblazing Black and Indigenous sculptor left her mark on Boston
Demystifying the majestic owl
2025
Cemeteries: How the Dead Protect the Wild (The Revelator, October 27, 2025)>>
For blind and low-vision nature lovers, birding is ‘by ear’ (WGBH, June 6, 2025)>>
Stunning Scenery: 12 Beautiful Places to Visit in New England (Yankee Magazine May 1, 2025)>>
Mount Auburn Cemetery Announces New Early Bird Hours (Watertown News, March 27, 2025)>>
2024
Celebrating ‘SOLSTICE’ at Mount Auburn Cemetery (WBUR, December 12, 2024)>>
The Complicated Ecology of Cemeteries (Sierra Club, Octoebr 24, 2024)>>
From Snakeroot to Salamanders, Life Thrives in Cemeteries (Mental Floss, October 18, 2024)>>
Listen: An artist resurrected Mount Auburn Cemetery’s defunct pipe organ (WBUR, May 17, 2024)>>
A musician’s invitation to meditate on death at Mount Auburn Cemetery (WBUR, March 21, 2024)>>
Early blooms at Mount Auburn Cemetery highlight climate change concerns (WBUR, March 12, 2024)>>
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
Patrick Gabridge (2018-2019 Artist-in-Residence of The Mount Auburn Plays) Press>>
Boston’s Other Housing Crisis: The Cemeteries (Boston Magazine, April 11, 2019)
‘The Wolves Of The Forest Floor’: These Salamanders Can Help Combat Climate Change, Scientists Say
American Cemetery Excellence Award (American Cemetery & Cremation, December 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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