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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.

Upcoming Events at Doors Open Days

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 - 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: 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 - 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 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: 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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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 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 - 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 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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Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival

18th September 2025 - 21st September 2025
Various Locations Glasgow

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

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 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: 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: 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 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 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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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: 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: 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: 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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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: 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: 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: 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: Mackintosh at the Willow Guided Building Tours

21st September 2025 - 22nd 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: 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 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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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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