Doors Open Days outline plan to overcome coronavirus concerns
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AN event offering people a glimpse behind the walls of buildings not always accessible to the public is going digital this year.
Doors Open Days are Scotland’s biggest free festival of architecture, offering a peek into a wide variety of buildings ranging from mausoleums to mansions.
The event in September is set to go online through tours, lectures and learning events as a result of ongoing uncertainty over the Covid-19 crisis.
A limited number of venues will still be open for physical visits this year, but organisers expect most people will enjoy new and cherished Scottish sites from the comfort of their armchair.
Chair of Scottish Civic Trust, Colin McLean, said: "We at Scottish Civic Trust are excited to support the new direction for this year’s Doors Open Days as a digital festival. By taking the festival online we are not only keeping our venues and communities safe, but offering support to organisations across Scotland to develop their digital literacy. We hope that our support will give venues confidence to have a continued online presence, and that digital engagement will become a mainstay of heritage outreach in the years to come."
Chief executive of Historic Environment Scotland, Alex Paterson, said: "Providing a strong digital platform for this year’s Doors Open Day activities is a great way of ensuring people can enjoy different aspects of Scotland’s rich historic architectural heritage.Since the onset of Covid-19, we have all had to adapt to new ways of doing things, with technology playing a key role in helping achieve that, and again, here we see another great example of that in action with this year’s event."
