Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
About
The Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery is the membership program that helps support Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, founded in 1831 as a place to inspire visitors, comfort the bereaved and commemorate the dead in a landscape of exceptional beauty. Mount Auburn is a National Historic Landmark, an accredited arboretum and botanical garden, and still an active cemetery. Membership and donations help sustain its natural beauty and history.
The Friends also back special projects, such as conserving the statue of Nathaniel Bowditch, the astronomer, mathematician and navigator honored with a prominent memorial in the cemetery. Each December the cemetery hosts SOLSTICE, an event with large-scale outdoor light and sound artworks by MASARY, indoor candle lighting and live music. Visitors can search burial records online, attend calendar events and stop by a new welcome center and gift shop in the Egyptian Revival Gateway.
What to Know
- Families can arrange burials or graveside memorials, and chapels and gardens can host commemorative events even for families without burial space there.
- Visitors are asked to follow posted guidelines that help preserve the grounds.
- The Friends aim to raise 20,000 dollars to conserve the Bowditch statue.
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