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In-person Events
An exhibition about Glasgow Building Preservation Trust projects.
Come & enjoy the launch of A_Place Gallery: a new art space in the city centre. This exhibition will highlight & celebrate emerging local artists within a building which speaks of survival & renewal.
Enjoy a wander through an art gallery, followed by the chance to reflect on the beautiful building. Prompted by your senses, your memories, your thoughts, we will come together & get creative.
Winners of the Outstanding Event of the 2022 Open Doors Festival, The Tenementals will deliver a public presentation about creating a history of Glasgow in song.
Join our behind the scenes tour of the National Library’s moving image and sound archives. Learn about our digitisation projects, hear from technicians and see how to access our collections.
Come and enjoy a compost making demonstration – it’s simpler than you think! Soon you’ll be turning your kitchen scraps, coffee grinds and cardboard into superb compost!
The ‘Building Stories’ exhibition captures untold stories about derelict buildings in Glasgow, and raises awareness of the perilous state of their preservation (or the lack of) of these buildings.
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust hosts a panel discussion on current restoration projects happening in the city.
Travel back in time with us for a very special tour of Glasgow’s only medieval castle! After an award-winning tour in 2019, The Village Storytelling Centre returns to Crookston Castle once again!
Join us at the ARC for the first screening event in our CinemARC series. We’re thrilled to present this special screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film, Rear Window.
Join us for a building tour culminating in the heart of our home – Parveen’s Canteen- to share food and learn about Civic House’s award-winning transformation into Scotland’s first ‘PassiveWareHaus’.
Learn about the built environment in a fun and relaxed setting – CLIMANIA is climate action game where players race rising temperatures to retrofit their property and reduce energy consumption.
Curious about home retrofit? This talk is a rallying call for homeowners, but all are welcome!
Interested in local history? Curious about approaching history in a fun a creative way? Join us as we work together toward a graphic novel about Maryhill! All welcome.
Join us for a treasure hunt around our historic building and learn about Maryhill Burgh Halls and the area!
Eco-mapping for Glasgow is an exhibition of GALLANT community collaboration work in year one of this 5—year project. Enjoy looking at canvas photo maps, illustrated maps and over 10,000 photographs!
Maths in part of our daily lives, have you ever thought about it? In partnership with Explorathon 2023, celebrate maths with this selection of winning entries from our national competition.
Learn some medieval songs in a friendly atmosphere, and find out about some of the least known aspects of medieval music!
How do researchers ensure their work is reproducible, useful and accessible to society? This interactive workshop will use everyone’s favourite construction toy – Lego! – to explore this question.
Explore the fantastic range of research happening at the University of Glasgow and beyond with two afternoons of table-top activities and exhibits in the Advanced Research Centre.
An exhibition of Natural dyes & fibres curated by Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw of #TheIndigoplot the Natural dye garden @ Glasgow Botanics
Do you remember the Garden Festival of 1888? Do you have fond memories of the event? Enjoy a multi-faceted celebration of the noteworthy event that was the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival!
This half hour or so talk with questions at the end will focus on online records unique to the Trades House of Glasgow and how to search for Burgesses in Glasgow up to around 1950.
Join us on a journey through Glasgow’s history from the iron age, to industrialisation to modern community life.
Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Research Centre can be booked for one-hour slots to give you taster sessions in tracing your family history. Free use of resources with experienced staff.
Come down to the Glasgow Gurdwara kitchen to learn to art of roti making!
Join Dr Alasdair C. Whyte (writer/singer/performer) discussing his new book Glasgow’s Gaelic Place-Names (Birlinn). Featuring Auchenshuggle, Shettleston, Yoker – and maybe even a wee Gaelic song.
What actually lies beneath platforms 3 and 4 in Central Station? What was the village of Grahamston like. Why are there still 3 ‘wonky’ streets and two that end in cul-de-sacs? Find out this & mor
Scott Abercrombie of The Alexander Thomson Society will examine the evolution of the 84 Miller Street and outline forthcoming works. The building has recently been awarded funding from Glasgow City He
Find out more about The Hunterian at Kelvin Hall with a behind the scenes collections store tour. An opportunity to see the many objects not on display in the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery.
“It Was The Loom That Broke My Heart” is a interactive multimedia installation informed by the social heritage of the French Street building, originally a weaving and dyeworks.
Glasgow Building Trust Director David Cook leads an illustrated talk on 40 years of the Trust and it’s key projects.
Find out about places connected with Jewish refugees who came to Glasgow around the Second World War, including the hostels for Kindertransport children and refugee women, as well as the Refugee Club
SKETCHES Film Project is a series of short dance duets by choreographer Katie Armstrong. The films were captured in 3 iconic locations across Govanhill and Pollokshields in 2019.
An improvised performance responding to Edwin Morgan’s scrapbooks through sound and spoken word. Part of Doors Open Day.