HISTORY OF GLASGOW DOORS OPEN DAYS FESTIVAL
Inspired by European Heritage Days, we introduced the Doors Open Days festival to the UK in 1990 as part of Glasgow’s term as the European City of Culture.
This free, community-led festival now attracts over 40,000 visits to over 100 participating venues and features a diverse programme of events, walks and talks.
Please visit our Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival website to find out what’s on at this years festival.
“When I started Doors Open Day, the concept was really simple. We basically said to people, ‘can you open your door, can you make people feel welcome, can you make people feel there are no barriers, there’s no otherness, there’s no exclusivity.’ It grew and grew and you found you had almost a club of ‘building baggers’ as we called them, that would come every year, and get seven one year, and then look for those buildings have them ticked off, looked for the next.”
