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Welcome to Doors Open Days!

Doors Open Days give you free access to hundreds of fascinating buildings across Scotland.  Every weekend in September you can explore places that are normally closed to the public.  Some open up once a year, some just once in a lifetime...

If you missed out, you can sign up for information about next year’s event and find out about similar events taking place throughout the World!

Photo taken by a primary school pupil as part of the www.photoarch.org.uk competition

The dates for some areas have been announced... 

Kagyu Samye Ling Tibetan Monastery, Dumfries and Galloway (c) Solway Heritage

The Scottish Civic Trust is delighted to have been awarded a grant to support the marketing of Doors Open Days to tourists and visitors in the UK and abroad as part of Homecoming Scotland 2009.

Carrochan (c) Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority

Doors Open Days has taken place for many years.  Find out how it all begun and what other countries run similar events.