In 2015, computer screens were installed throughout the cemetery to help visitors locate specific tombs.[2][3]
On 27 August 2015 Albert II, Prince of Monaco dedicated a memorial stele in honour of foreign Jews who were taken from Monegasque hotels by the Nazis during the night of 27–28 August 1942.[4]
In 2024, 200 tombs were moved from the lower part of the cemetery to make room for the construction of the new Charles III strip.[5] In 2025, the cemetery started to build a new square containing 200 new spaces, to enhance the capacity of the crematorium, and to build an underground parking area with connecting elevators.[6]
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The cemetery contained 2350 tombs until 2014, when 198 more were built.[1] Its columbarium holds 546 boxes. The dispersion of ashes is done in the lower Jardin du Souvenir (Garden of the Memory), in a container that is emptied in the cemetery's underground ossuary when full.[7] It is open to the public from 8am to 7pm in the summer and from 8am to 6pm in the winter.[1]
On-site connected devices enable visitors to easily find a grave by its occupant's name. The concession for a grave lasts 30 years. The cemetery computer system is programmed to ping the municipality when a concession is about to expire.[2]
Josephine Baker, American-French entertainer, civil rights activist, and war heroine and her fourth husband, composer Jo Bouillon.[9] While her remains continue to be interred in Monaco, Baker is honoured with a cenotaph in the Panthéon in Paris, into which she was inducted, as the first black woman, in November 2021.[10]
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