Sweet Auburn: The Magazine of the Friends of Mount Auburn Reimagining the Cemetery as Museum | Page 7

Connecting to Our
Collections: A New
Mobile App for
Mount Auburn
By Bree D. Harvey, Vice President of Cemetery & Visitor Services

Mount Auburn is in the process of creating an
exciting new resource for its many visitors. Since last fall,
the Cemetery has been working with webCemeteries.
com to build an interactive mobile app that provides basic
navigational tools as well as detailed information about
the people, plants, art, and other landscape features found
throughout the Cemetery. The app, which will be ready
for visitor use later this year, will be an invaluable resource
for family members, researchers, regular visitors, casual
tourists—and even our own staff.
Ease of “wayfinding”—the process of moving from one
place to another using navigational tools—is an important
factor in determining the quality of visitor experience at
any museum or cultural institution. At Mount Auburn,
where 30 miles of roads and paths meander over 175 acres,
wayfinding is critical. Loaded into the n ]