27-Apr-2025: PBK Boston Tours the Mount Auburn Cemetery

What: Join PBK Boston for a walking tour of the Mount Auburn Cemetery, founded in 1831 and a study of art and nature in balance. Explore 190 years of changing ideas about life and death through the 45,000 examples of funerary art found within its 175 acres and the works of art that this landscape has inspired.

From the website: Mount Auburn was born of a vision for a cemetery in a natural landscape that would comfort and inspire visitors. The original embodiment of “garden cemetery” in America, Mount Auburn’s founding was intentional – an innovative purpose and design brought to life for the benefit of all.

Nearly two centuries later, the landscape of Mount Auburn Cemetery – plants, trees, water, topography, monuments, structures and habitats – remains both foundation and touchstone for everything we do. The ever-changing combination and layering of natural…