Doors Open Days 2024
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.
Doors Open Days 2024
Doors Open Days is back on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 September 2024. This is the 30th year of Stirling participating in Doors Open Days. The venues taking part and event details/opening times are now on the national Doors Open Days website, available by following the link below.
An interactive map of events is also available below, this can be downloaded to your device and can be used to navigate to venues during the festival.
2024 is the 30th year of Stirling’s Doors Open Days festival, as well as part of the Stirling 900 celebrations. This year many buildings are welcoming Doors Open Days visitors to celebrate the built heritage, ancient & modern, of the Stirling area.
Doors Open Days is Scotland’s largest free festival which celebrates heritage and the built environment. It offers free access to over a thousand venues across the country each September.
Doors Open Days are coordinated nationally by the Scottish Civic Trust and are organised locally in each Council area. Doors Open Days is part of European Heritage Days and is supported by Historic Environment Scotland.
The list of venues taking part in this year’s DOD include:
- Allan’s Primary School Bastion
- The Bank
- Bannockburn House Tours
- Camphill Blair Drummond House
- CCDT Gillies Hill Community Woodland and Walled Garden
- Central Library
- Cowane’s Hospital
- Creative Dunblane
- Dementia Services Development Centre
- Engine Shed
- Gargunnock Kirk
- History of the University of Stirling historic campus and archives walking tour
- Holy Rude
- Holy Trinity Scottish Episcopal Church
- Kippen Parish Church
- Kippen Smiddy
- Lecropt Kirk
- Leighton Library
- Mugdock Castle
- University of Stirling Art Collection at the Pathfoot Building
- Kings, Wolves and Drones: 20 Years of Care & Repair at Stirling City Heritage Trust
- Sheriff Court Tours
- St Blane’s Church, Dunblane
- St Ninians Old Parish Church
- Stirling Council Archives at the Central Library
- Islamic Centre
- Stirling Old High School Observatory
- Stirling Old Town Jail – Behind the Bars Tour
- The Smith Art Gallery & Museum Tours
- The Tolbooth
- War Graves Tour
- Well House Tours
- Well House Walks of the Eco Museum Airthrey Copper Mine trail
