Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival
18th – 21st September 2025
Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival is an annual event celebrating the city’s architecture, culture & heritage.
Each September the festival brings together dozens of participants who throw open the doors of over 100 historic buildings, theatres, museum stores, factories, studios, breweries & more, across the city, to the public, for free. The festival’s mission is to increase civic pride among Glaswegians and to broaden awareness of the city’s rich built & cultural heritage at local, national & international levels.
The largest in the family of Doors Open Days events happening across Scotland throughout September, this year Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival celebrates its 36h anniversary. For the 2025 festival, we are asking participants and festivalgoers, ‘What type of city will Glasgow be in the future?’ A wheeling city? A circular economy city? A learning city? As we celebrate the city’s 850th Birthday, we invite you to share your vision of your community, your Glasgow. Find out more about our festival theme: Glasgow: the visionary city.
The festival has been organised by Glasgow Building Preservation Trust since it began in 1990 as part of the City of Culture celebrations.
Visit glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk to find out more.