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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
Events are free but some require advance booking
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Scotland’s largest free heritage and community festival returns from 18 – 21 September 2025, inviting you to step – or wheel – behind the scenes of our visionary city!

Enjoy rare access to more than 150 captivating buildings, hidden spaces, factories, theatres, museum stores and architectural and cultural gems across the city.

Organised by Glasgow Building Preservation Trust, the festival celebrates the city’s rich built and cultural heritage, encouraging civic pride and connection through stories, spaces and shared experiences.

Get ready for four vibrant days featuring:
★ Open buildings
★ Guided walks & talks
★ Performances, exhibitions & ceilidhs
★ Hands-on workshops for all ages
★ Family-friendly activities

At the heart of the action will be our Festival Hub at the Advanced Research Centre (ARC) at the University of Glasgow. Get ready for a full line-up of engaging talks featuring fresh perspectives, fascinating stories, children’s activities and lively conversations all focused around our 2025 festival theme: Glasgow The Visionary City.

On Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st September we will be joined at the ARC by Explorathon Festival who will be celebrating the incredible diversity of research happening across the country through an extravaganza of shows, talks, family activities, comedy and discovery.

With more than 150 events to choose from, whether you’re a lifelong Glaswegian, a new resident, or a curious visitor, Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival is your invitation to celebrate the soul of the city – its stories, its spaces, and the visionaries who built it.

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Doors Open Days: Inchinnan Parish Church

6th September 2025

Inchinnan Parish Church will have its doors open on Saturday 6th September, welcoming all with free tours, friendly faces, and complimentary tea and coffee!

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Maggie’s Linedance Flashmob

6th September 2025

Join Maggie and her Line Dance Class for a Flashmob outside Paisley Town Hall and Paisley Abbey on Saturday 6th September!

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Doors Open Days: Graveyard Tours at Paisley Arts Centre

6th September 2025

Join The Urban Historian for a tour of Paisley Laigh Kirk and its adjoining graveyard on Saturday 6th September as part of this year's Doors Open Days Festival!

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Doors Open Days Renfrewshire

6th September 2025 - 7th September 2025
Various Locations Renfrewshire

Scotland's annual Doors Open Days festival gives you free access to lots of fascinating buildings across Renfrewshire! This year's event will be held on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th September.

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Doors Open Days Inverclyde

6th September 2025 - 7th September 2025
Various Locations Inverclyde

Scotland's annual Doors Open Days festival gives you free access to lots of fascinating buildings across Inverclyde! This year's event will be held on September 6th & 7th.

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Doors Open Days South Lanarkshire

6th September 2025 - 7th September 2025
Various Locations Lanarkshire

Scotland's annual Doors Open Days festival gives you free access to lots of fascinating buildings across South Lanarkshire! This year's event will be held on September 6th & 7th!

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Doors Open Days East Dunbartonshire

6th September 2025 - 7th September 2025
Various Locations East Dunbartonshire

Scotland's annual Doors Open Days festival gives you free access to lots of fascinating buildings across East Dunbartonshire! This year's event will be held on September 6th & 7th!

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Doors Open Days - Fife East

6th September 2025 - 14th September 2025
Various Locations Fife

Scotland's annual Doors Open Days festival gives you free access to lots of fascinating buildings across Fife on selected dates in September!

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Doors Open Days - Fife Central

6th September 2025 - 15th September 2025
Various Locations Fife

Scotland's annual Doors Open Days festival gives you free access to lots of fascinating buildings across Fife on selected dates in September!

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Doors Open Days Midlothian

13th September 2025 - 14th September 2025
Various Locations Midlothian

Scotland's annual Doors Open Days festival gives you free access to lots of fascinating buildings across Midlothian! This year's event will be held 13th & 14th September!

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Doors Open Days North Lanarkshire

13th September 2025 - 14th September 2025
Various Locations Lanarkshire

Scotland's annual Doors Open Days festival gives you free access to lots of fascinating buildings across North Lanarkshire! This year's event will be held on September 13th & 14th!

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Doors Open Days - Fife West

14th September 2025 - 21st September 2025
Various Locations Fife

Scotland's annual Doors Open Days festival gives you free access to lots of fascinating buildings across Fife. Check out this year's events in Fife West!

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Doors Open Days: Lost Glasgow: Lost buildings

17th September 2025

Join the National Library of Scotland at Kelvin Hall for a talk and screening looking at the lost buildings of Glasgow as part of Doors Open Day and Glasgow 850.

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Doors Open Day: Behind The Scenes Centenary Tours

18th September 2025

Celebrate the National Library of Scotland's centenary with a free 'behind the scenes' tour of Scotland’s moving image and sound archive at Kelvin Hall!

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Doors Open Days: Mitchell Library

18th September 2025 - 20th September 2025

As part of Doors Open Days, come along to hear about the Mitchell Library's fascinating history, explore its beautiful spaces, and discover some of the unique collections that make it so special.

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Doors Open Days: Couper Institute

18th September 2025 - 20th September 2025

See behind the scenes of the historic Couper Institute in partnership with Glasgow Life as part of Doors Open Day 2025!

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Doors Open Days: Glasgow Street Aid

19th September 2025 - 21st September 2025

Join Glasgow Street Aid for an exclusive look behind the scenes at their extraordinary, purpose fitted Medical and Welfare Centre as part of Doors Open Days!

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Doors Open Days: A Sense of the Sacred

20th September 2025

Have fun at St Brides and see if you can ring the church bell on this special event as part of Doors Open Days 2025!

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Doors Open Days: Film Screening - From Scotland with Love

20th September 2025

As part of the Cathcart, Merrylee & Muirend Summer Festival, Doors Open Day, and in partnership with Glasgow Life, join us for a FREE film screening in the atmospheric Couper Institute!

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Doors Open Days: King’s Theatre Glasgow Heritage Tour

20th September 2025

Get a sneak peek behind the scenes and get to know the iconic King's Theatre like you've never before on this guided tour as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival!

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Doors Open Days: Shoebox City

20th September 2025

Join National Library of Scotland at Kelvin Hall for an all-ages creative session as part of Glasgow's Doors Open Days Festival and get hands on with imagining and building the city of the future!

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Doors Open Days: Finding Glasgow - Kelvin Hall (re)collects

20th September 2025

Join us at Kelvin Hall to discover Glasgow 850 through a series of talks, tours, films and conversations for Doors Open Day!

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Doors Open Days: The Art of Assemblage

20th September 2025

In this fun workshop led by author, artist and illustrator Ben Morse, you can learn the art of collage and create your very own artwork from a range of printed materials.

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Doors Open Days: Beyond The Music Of Hildegard

20th September 2025

In this workshop, Father Peter Bradley will lead us through the secret language that Hildegard devised, her work on herbs and healing, her journalling, and her musical morality play.

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Doors Open Days East Renfrewshire

20th September 2025 - 21st September 2025
Various Locations East Renfrewshire

Scotland's annual Doors Open Days festival gives you free access to lots of fascinating buildings across East Renfrewshire! This year's event will be held on September 20th & 21st.

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Doors Open Days: Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre

20th September 2025 - 21st September 2025

The doors will be open for a warm welcome from all at the Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre as part of this year's Doors Open Days events!

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Doors Open Days: Mackintosh at the Willow Guided Building Tours

20th September 2025 - 21st September 2025

Learn about the history and design of the original Willow Tea Rooms building, the restoration of this masterpiece, and the visionary Edwardian entrepreneur, Miss Kate Cranston on a guided tour!

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Doors Open Days West Lothian

20th September 2025 - 21st September 2025
Various Locations West Lothian

Scotland's annual Doors Open Days festival gives you free access to lots of fascinating buildings across West Lothian! This year's event will be held on 20th & 21st September!

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Doors Open Days: St Bride’s Great Animal Safari Trail

20th September 2025 - 21st September 2025

Go on an animal safari and see how many different creatures you can find and identify within the choir stalls at St Brides Episcopal Church as part of Doors Open Days 2025!

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Doors Open Days: Researchers at Work: Tours of the ARC

20th September 2025 - 21st September 2025

Come along and see researchers in action! The ARC are hosting small group tours showcasing the world-class research going on in the centre.

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Doors Open Days: Tenement House

20th September 2025 - 21st September 2025

This is your chance to see inside of Glasgow's most loved tenement, An authentic time capsule of life in early 20th-century Glasgow, as part of Doors Open Days!

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Doors Open Days: Holmwood House

20th September 2025 - 21st September 2025

Discover Holmwood House Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's finest domestic creation as part of Glasgow's Doors Open Days Festival 2025!

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Doors Open Day at The Engine Shed

20th September 2025 - 21st September 2025

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: Illuminating the Divine Tour

20th September 2025 - 21st September 2025

St Bride's has a fine collection of stunning church glass windows dating from the first half of the 20th century, find out all about them on this special tour as part of Doors Open Days 2025!

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Doors Open Days: Eastwood Park Theatre - Guided Tours

21st September 2025

Join the team at Eastwood Park Theatre on Sunday 21st September for a behind the scenes tour as part of Doors Open Day 2025!

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Doors Open Days: Eastwood House - Guided Tours

21st September 2025

To celebrate Doors Open Day 2025 and its theme of Architectural Heritage the team at Eastwood House are offering a truly unique opportunity to learn about this magnificent mansion house.

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Doors Open Days: Miss Cranston’s Classroom

21st September 2025

Bring your family to Mackintosh at the Willow this Doors Open Days and get a taste of 1903 in this extra-special Living History experience!

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Doors Open Days: Out of the Blue Drill Hall

27th September 2025

On Saturday 27th September, hourly tours will be running at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall from 11am until 1pm as part of Edinburgh Doors Open Days!

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Doors Open Days - Edinburgh

27th September 2025 - 28th September 2025
Various Locations Edinburgh

Scotland's annual Doors Open Days festival gives you free access to lots of fascinating buildings across Edinburgh! This year's event will be held on September 27th & 28th!

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Doors Open Days - East Lothian

27th September 2025 - 28th September 2025
Various Locations East Lothian

Scotland's annual Doors Open Days festival gives you free access to lots of fascinating buildings across East Lothian! This year's event will be held on 27th & 28th September!

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Doors Open Day: Adam Smith’s Panmure House

27th September 2025 - 28th September 2025

Explore the historic Adam Smith's Panmure House in the heart of Edinburgh for Doors Open Day weekend!

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Doors Open Days Stirling 2025

27th September 2025 - 28th September 2025
Stirling

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

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