Doors Open Days
Doors Open Days, Scotland's largest festival of places, history and culture, will return for its 36th year in September 2025!
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Doors Open Days will return in September with a programme events and activities.
Doors Open Days is Scotland’s largest free festival that celebrates heritage and the built environment. It offers free access to over a thousand venues across the country each September.
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Upcoming Events at Doors Open Days
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!
READ MOREDoors Open Days - Fife West
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
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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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!
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Doors Open Days: Couper Institute
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: Jackton Distillery Maltings Tours
Exclusively for Glasgow Doors Open Days 2025, Jackton Distillery will be showing off their state-of-the-art maltings - for the first time ever!
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Doors Open Days: Mitchell Library
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 Day: Behind The Scenes Centenary Tours
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: Glasgow Street Aid
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: King’s Theatre Glasgow Heritage Tour
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: Illuminating the Divine Tour
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!
READ MOREDoors Open Days 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!
READ MOREDoors Open Days: Beyond The Music Of Hildegard
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.
READ MOREDoors Open Days: A Sense of the Sacred
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 Day at The Engine Shed
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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Doors Open Days: Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre
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: St Bride’s Great Animal Safari Trail
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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Door Open Days: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow will be opening their doors to visitors to explore their beautiful rooms and learn about the history of medicine and surgery in Glasgow.
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Doors Open Days: Mackintosh at the Willow Guided Building Tours
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: Shoebox City
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: Researchers at Work: Tours of the ARC
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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Glasgow Firsts at the Mitchell Library: Doors Open Day Handling Session
Feast your eyes on some 'Glasgow Firsts' at the Mitchell Library's Doors Open Day handling session on Saturday 20th September!
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Doors Open Days: Maryhill Women’s History Walk
As part of their celebration for Doors Open Days, Maryhill Burgh Halls are back with their popular Women's History Walk.
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Explorathon at Glasgow Doors Open Day
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: Finding Glasgow - Kelvin Hall (re)collects
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: Tenement House
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!
READ MOREDoors Open Days 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.
READ MOREDoors Open Days: Film Screening - From Scotland with Love
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: The Art of Assemblage
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: Holmwood House
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 Days: Eastwood Park Theatre - Guided Tours
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: Miss Cranston’s Classroom
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: Eastwood House - Guided Tours
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.
READ MOREDoors Open Days - 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
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: Out of the Blue Drill Hall
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 Stirling 2025
Scotland's annual Doors Open Days festival gives you free access to lots of fascinating buildings across Stirling!
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Edinburgh Open Workshop - Doors Open Day
Discover creativity on your doorstep as Edinburgh Open Workshop invites you to step inside for Doors Open Day 2025 on Saturday 27th September!
READ MOREDoors Open Days - 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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Kirkcaldy Walking Festival
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Dunfermline Winter Festival
Dunfermline Winter Festival is back with a second year of great music for the festive season.
READ MORE
On The Rocks Festival
On The Rocks is St Andrews' student-run arts festival, showcasing art, fashion, theatre, photography, film and music from the student body and wider community.
READ MORE
Pittenweem Arts Festival
Immerse yourself in a vibrant showcase of creativity, right within the charming village of Pittenweem in the picturesque East Neuk of Fife.
READ MORE
Crail Festival
The Crail Festival returns in 2025 bringing culture to the East Neuk of Fife.
READ MORE
St Andrews Photography Festival
The St Andrews Photography Festival aims to celebrate a long line of Scottish photographers, historic and contemporary and to recognise St Andrews as the home of Scottish Photography.
READ MORE
Kirkcaldy Cycling Festival
This year, we will be holding the fourth annual Kirkcaldy Cycling Festival from 3rd-11th September.
READ MORE
Langtoun Jazz Festival
Langtoun Jazz Festival returns in 2024 with lots of events happening around Kirkcaldy on the last weekend in June!
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Kirkcaldy Walking Festival
Kirkcaldy Walking Festival is back for 2025 with a programme of led walks taking place from 6th - 15th June.
READ MORE
East Neuk Festival
Scotland’s East Neuk Festival (ENF) will take place from Wednesday 25th June - Sunday 29th June 2025.
READ MORE
Cambo Snowdrop Festival
Cambo estate is the birthplace of this annual snowdrop celebration and home to the UK’s Plant Heritage national collection of snowdrops.
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Largo Arts Week
Largo Arts Week returns this summer for its 6th year from 12th – 20th July to our villages of Lower Largo, Lundin Links and Upper Largo.
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Outwith Festival
Outwith Festival is a friendly music and arts festival that springs into life every September in the small but mighty city of Dunfermline.
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