Reimagining the Cemetery as Museum Lessons from IMLS Collections Stewardship Grants
November 12, 2015 |
In this one-day program, Mount Auburn and Green-Wood Cemeteries take a fresh look at how diverse collections of monuments and historic landscapes can be leveraged to educate, inspire, and sustain an audience in order to support their preservation and future relevance. Cemeteries function as outdoor history museums featuring diverse collections of sculpture and horticulture, but too often they are not managed or promoted in ways that ensure their long-term preservation. Mount Auburn and Green-Wood are the first cemeteries in the United States to receive Museums for America Collections Stewardship grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to help document and research their significant monument collections, giving both organizations a new opportunity to develop systems of maintaining and sharing information about their collections at a museum-level standard.
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Website:
mountauburn.org/2015/cemetery-as-museum/ |
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| Location Information |
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Mount Auburn Cemetery |
580 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 |
| Website:
mountauburn.org/2015/cemetery-as-museum/ |
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| Contact Information |
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Anna Moir |
| Email:
amoir@mountauburn.org |
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617-607-1946 or 617-607-1970 |
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