Presented by The Mourning Society of St. Louis; Saturday, June 27, 2026; free with Garden admission; 11:00am-4:00pm. This event is a collaboration with the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum, at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

The Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum is one of the historic structures on the grounds of the Garden, and features the special exhibition: Smelling the Bouquet: Plants and Scents in the Garden opening May 2, 2025.

The Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum

Consolations of Memory isn’t quite like all the other fall cemetery tours. Rather than portraying the spirits of those buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery we portray the living, breathing people of the era who were left behind to mourn the loss of a loved one.

The tour will include a reenactment of a 19th century burial service and a short walking tour of the Lindell section of the cemetery

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Bellefontaine Cemetery

Image courtesy of Curt Dennison