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Using historically based storytelling, cinematography, photography, audio recording, sound design, digital editing, music and mobile interactive, earth.sky evokes American history and the contemporaneous life force of diverse individuals interred at Mount Auburn from its consecration in 1831 to the present.

Explore our new online exhibit, Mount Auburn’s Significant Monuments (click the image below to launch the exhibit in a new window).

Written by Melissa Banta with Meg L. Winslow, with excerpts from their publication The Art of Commemoration and America’s First Rural Cemetery, the online exhibit features thirty of Mount Auburn’s significant monuments, from the Hannah Adams memorial (the first monument at Mount Auburn) to the Mary Wigglesworth memorial (an example of Victorian vernacular).

Published by the Friends of Mount Auburn, the exhibit is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to research and document thirty of our significant monuments. It is a great honor to be the first cemetery in the United States to receive this grant.

We hope the exhibit will serve as an introduction to funerary art at Mount Auburn, and that it will encourage further scholarship and newfound appreciation for the artwork to be discovered in Mount Auburn’s beautiful landscape.

Do you take photos?

We would love to see and share your favorite photos of Mount Auburn on our Flickr and /or Pinterest pages. Email digital images to: Webmaster@mountauburn.org.

•    Please submit jpegs, (bmp, RAW and tiff files will not be accepted)
•    By submitting photos you warrant that the images are your original work and do not violate the copyright or property right of any third party and that you grant the Friends of Mount Auburn a royalty-free license to publicly display, reproduce, and publish the photos on our website, Flickr page, Sweet Auburn magazine, Annual Report, or other publication(s) for any and all editorial and related promotional purposes in perpetuity. However, you will retain the copyright to your photo(s). (more…)

Welcome to Mount Auburn’s new website. Explore all of what makes Mount Auburn so special, browse our media archive for videos and past issues of our Sweet Auburn magazine, locate a burial on our interactive map, or consult our online calendar for a list of upcoming events.

We’d love to hear your feedback about our new site.  Contact us at friends@mountauburn.org to share your thoughts.

Funding for this website has been provided by the Anthony J. & Mildred D. Ruggiero Memorial Trust. 

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