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Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival

Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival is an annual event celebrating the city's architecture, culture, and heritage through a free programme of open buildings and events taking place in September!

Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival

About Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival

18th Sep 2025 to 21st Sep 2025
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Various Locations Glasgow
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Glasgow’s free heritage festival is back for a 36th edition this September and we can’t wait for you to join us.

For Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2025 we are asking participants and festivalgoers, ‘What type of city will Glasgow be in the future?’ A wheeling city? A circular economy city? A learning city? As we celebrate the city’s 850th Birthday, we invite you to share your vision of your community, your Glasgow.

Glasgow has always been a city of ambition and action. We think of ourselves as a liveable, ever-changing, ‘can do’ city. A place of thinkers and doers. For decades Glasgow’s dynamic energy has drawn citizens and visitors alike to live, play, work and visit the city. We’ve been an industrial powerhouse, a retail city, a city of culture and the friendly city.

Sometimes this sense of a big vision pulls the city forward and upwards: Glasgow’s Miles Better, European City of Culture, the 2014 Commonwealth Games, People Make Glasgow.

Sometimes it’s led to big bold moves which, in retrospect, harm the city’s future in the name of progress. The Bruce Plan of the 1950s, cutting a motorway through the heart of the city, clearing out of communities to the city’s periphery, rapid depopulation.

But as the city changes again, what is its vision of itself today? What will drive us forward? And what part can we play in helping it get to where it’s going next?

From 18–21 September, we invite you to share your hopes and ideas for Glasgow’s future. In partnership with Glasgow Disability Alliance and Bikes for Good, we’re promoting active travel to and from festival venues. Keep an eye out for our cycling and wheeling maps in our flyers.

Our mobile exhibition, The Air We Breathe, will travel through the city by bike, celebrating progress in air quality and inspiring action to reduce carbon emissions. A wide programme of free, all-ages events, celebrating our festival theme and Glasgow’s wheeling heritage will take place at our Festival Hub at the ARC, University of Glasgow.

Keep an eye out on our social media channels, website and newsletter for festival updates. We can’t wait for you to join us in shaping the future of this visionary city.

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Doors Open Day at The Engine Shed

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The Engine Shed is opening it's doors on 20th and 21st September as part of Doors Open Day 2025. Join us to discover what's inside and learn about it's history!

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Explorathon at Glasgow Doors Open Day

20th September 2025 - 21st September 2025

Dip into the fantastic research happening on your doorstep, with family-friendly activities and exhibits as part of the Scotland-wide Explorathon festival, in partnership with Glasgow Doors Open Days!

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Doors Open Days Stirling 2025

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Scotland's annual Doors Open Days festival gives you free access to lots of fascinating buildings across Stirling!

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