Doors Open Days - Fife Central
Scotland's annual Doors Open Days festival gives you free access to lots of fascinating buildings across Fife on selected dates in September!
About Doors Open Days - Fife Central
Doors Open Days is Scotland’s largest free festival that celebrates heritage and the built environment, new and old. Every September, you can explore hundreds of fascinating buildings across Scotland for free. Some open up once a year, some just once in a lifetime.
Doors Open Days is a national event run by the Scottish Civic Trust. Information about the national programme, including event listings, can be found at www.doorsopendays.org.uk.
Programme Highlights:
Adam Smith Heritage Centre
13 September 2025
14 September 2025
Exhibition of Adam Smith’s life and times, highlighting the global importance of Smith, as an 18th century moral philosopher and economist, both then and since. The Adam Smith garden will also be open for perusal.
Art Catriona Gallery
13 September 2025
For a Doors Open Days special event Fife artist Catriona Livingston will be opening her personal gallery for public viewing where her original vibrant and modern canvases, framed prints, cushions and mugs will be on show.
Auchtertool Kirk
14 September 2025
The Kirk invites you to enjoy peaceful contemplation in this beautiful setting. See our wonderful stained glass war memorial window, 17thC grave slabs, carved stone font and 1886 organ. All are welcome in this place.
Burntisland Heritage Trust
13 September 2025
14 September 2025
For 30 years Burntisland Heritage Group have organised summer exhibitions open to the general public. Visit the our newest display exhibition for 2024 which is titled “The Changing Face of Our Town” with its focus on the High Street, using “Then and Now “ photographs. The historic Burgh Chambers will also be open to visitors.
Burntisland Parish Church
13 September 2025
14 September 2025
Visit this historically important church, the earliest built in Scotland after the Reformation and still in use. It is of a highly distinctive original Scottish design, and is notable for its many carved and painted 17thC wooden panels.
Christ's Kirk on the Green, Leslie
11 to 15 September 2025
A Leslie Heritage community archaeological excavation will be taking place on the Green from Thursday 11th onwards. Come along and get involved in uncovering the history of Leslie, but please check Leslie Heritage social media pages for updates closer to the day.
Dysart St Clair Parish Church
14 September 2025
The original Free Church in Dysart had become too small, and in 1874 a new church was built a short distance away in West Port. The church is built of stone, with a slate roof, and is cruciform with Romanesque detailing. It's design has been likened to the early 19thC church of St Monans.
Dysart Town House
14 September 2025
Visit the late 16th century Tolbooth to explore its prison cell. The 19th century Town Hall holds the exhibition of the Dysart Trust and features fascinating items from the town’s industrial past; old school photographs and evocative local memorabilia are of particular interest.
Erskine United Free Church
13 September 2025
Visit Burntisland's iconic landmark as seen on Royal Bank of Scotland's £10 notes ! visible to everyone who passes through the town and for miles around. Learn of the church's history with our display of documents, photographs, and a matchstick model of the church.
Fife Collections Centre
13 September 2025
Book now for an exclusive behind the scenes guided tour of our Collections Centre at 10.30am and at 2pm on Saturday 13th September. The tour is suitable for people aged 14 years and upwards.
Fife Heritage Railway, Leven
13 September 2025
14 September 2025
Volunteers at the FHR are pleased to announce that for the first time since 2019 they will be taking part in Doors Open Days once again. Over this September weekend we will be opening up as much of the site as we can so that you will have the chance to see behind the scenes and see how challenging it is to keep the place on track.
Greener Kirkcaldy Community Training Gardens
14 September 2025
Greener Kirkcaldy’s Nature and Growing team will be on hand at the Community Training Garden and tours will be offered throughout the day. Learn about what we grow, our projects and walk through our orchard.
Kirkcaldy Art Club
14 September 2025
Visit our historic building on the corner of Hot Pot Wynd in Dysart as part of Doors Open 2025 on Sunday 14th September. We will have an exhibition of members work, tombola and children's activities in our pottery.
Kirkcaldy Community Gardens & Allotments (Ravenscraig)
14 September 2025
Visit our Community Allotment site within the historic Ravenscraig walled garden. Children are welcome to visit and enjoy the walks around and through the gardens.
Kirkcaldy Townhouse
13 September 2025
Construction of Kirkcaldy Town House started in 1937, but only the foundations were laid before WWII delayed the work for several years. The building has many unique features contributed by several artists, designers and craftsmen.
Law's Close ~ The Merchant's House
14 September 2025
More widely known as the "Merchant's House" this building is one of the finest surviving 16th century town houses in Scotland. An extended conservation programme of the house revealed many original architectural features and interior decoration that can now be seen following its years of restoration.
Methil Heritage Centre
6 September 2025
Methil Heritage Centre has reopened !! Come and see our permanent exhibition 'Levenmouth Lives' and displays capturing the history of Methil and surrounding area.
Museum of Communication
6 September 2025
10 September 2025
13 September 2025
Come along and see early visual communication systems before electricity. See the telegraph equipment that superseded them and led to the development of telephones, followed by radio and television systems and wartime developments such as Radar and Sonar.
Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy
12 to 14 September 2025
The Old Kirk joins the Merchant's House, Pathhead Parish Church, Dysart Town Hall, Ravenscraig Walled Garden, Kirkcaldy Art Club and the Town House, in opening its doors to the public.
Pathhead Parish Church
13 September 2025
14 September 2025
Visit our church and learn about it varied 200 year history through a historical photographic exhibition.
Silverburn Park & Flax Mill
13 September 2025
14 September 2025
Come to Silverburn Flax Mill for 'Hard Hat Tours' and talks, and have a go at our 'Drop–in Workshops' to learn about traditional crafts and building techniques. Enjoy our guided woodland nature walk of the park, or explore how flax becomes linen in our family friendly workshops.
St Drostan's Kirk, Markinch
13 September 2025
14 September 2025
St Drostan’s Markinch has one of the most perfectly preserved early Norman tower in Scotland. It also has a claim to be one of the oldest, most likely built by Earl Constantine of Fife in the 1120s and completed by his successor Gillemichael in the 1130s.
Wemyss Caves
14 September 2025
Visit our newly refurbished museum and exhibition building and join a tour to see the largest concentration of original Pictish carvings anywhere!
Wemyss School of Needlework
6 - 7 September 2025
13 - 14 September 2025
The School has been in existence since 1876, when girls came to learn a skill and earn money. Under the present guardian, Fiona Wemyss, the School has improved and progressed to offer teaching of all kinds of needlecrafts, supplying materials and designs to customers, whilst still retaining the original building and wealth of historical pieces.
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