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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

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 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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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 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: 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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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 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: 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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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: 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: 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 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 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: 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 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: 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 - 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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More Festivals in Renfrewshire

The Spree

, Various Locations Paisley

Paisley's national festival, The Spree, will be back between the 1st and 10th September with another stellar line-up!

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Paisley Book Festival

Paisley Book Festival , Paisley

Paisley Book Festival, which is delivered by OneRen and held annually in April, brings some of the best writers to Paisley for discussions and events!

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Popular Events

Maggie’s Linedance Flashmob
Join Maggie and her Line Dance Class for a Flashmob outside Paisley Town Hall and Paisley Abbey on Saturday 6th September!
When Billy Met Alasdair
Alan Bissett, award-winning creator of Fringe hit The Moira Monologues, takes on the dual roles of two Scottish cultural giants when he brings When Billy Met Alasdair to Paisley Arts Centre!
Grassroots Wrestling Scotland XSite Braehead Wrestling Experience
Let's get ready to rumble! The heavyweight champion of entertainment and leisure, XSite Braehead, invites the local community to its big wrestling event on Saturday 16th August!
Beginners Sewing Course
Always wanted to learn how to use a sewing machine but just don’t know where to start? Then this four-week course from Thimbleberry Sewing could be the answer!
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons & The Lark Ascending by Candlelight
Enjoy some of the most genius compositions including Vivaldi's Four Seasons and The Lark Ascending from the highly acclaimed London Concertante at Paisley Abbey!

Popular Listings

Beacon Arts Centre Braehead Arena Johnstone Town Hall Old Swan Inn Paisley Paisley Abbey Paisley Arts Centre Paisley Town Hall Robertson Park Renfrew The Bungalow Paisley Venue Paisley