**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Webinar via email.**

Long before the establishment of Boston’s public art museums, Mount Auburn Cemetery, in Cambridge and Watertown, was a major attraction for visitors and a pleasure ground shaping artistic taste. Its picturesque landscape, ornamented with tasteful works of commemorative art, was designed to provide solace to the bereaved and inspiration to the living. In the era before the founding of Boston’s public art museums, Mount Auburn, founded in 1831, offered one of the few venues where the public could see the work of European as well as the first generation of American sculptors and monument carvers. Explore Mount Auburn as an outdoor museum full of art and nature, featuring memorials by artists such as Thomas Crawford, Stanford White, and Edmonia Lewis. Led by Meg L. Winslow, Curator of Historical Collections & Archives at Mount Auburn Cemetery. She is the co-author of The Art of Commemoration and America’s First Rural Cemetery, Mount Auburn’s Significant Monument Collection. She also serves on the Sculpture Committee for the Friends of the Boston Public Garden.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Presented in collaboration with the Cary Memorial Library in Lexington.

RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.

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