National Library of Scotland

What's on

Find out about our events and exhibitions in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and online.

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Doors Open Day: Glasgow goes out to the pictures

Fair, Display, Doors Open Days
16 to 19 September 2026
Black and white photo of the old ABC 1 cinema on Sauchiehall St, Glasgow.

Glasgow cinema city

Talk, Screening, Doors Open Days
16 September 2026, 6:00PM to 7:00PM
Painting depicting a street view outside a cinema.

Bookbug

Workshop
17 September 2026, 10:30AM to 11:00AM
The bookbug on a green background

Doors Open Day: Behind the scenes tours

Tour, Doors Open Days
17 September 2026, 10:30AM to 1:00PM
A curator reaching for a tape on a rolling archive shelf.

Welcome to the Library tours

Tour
17 September 2026, 3:00PM to 3:30PM
The outside of the Library building on George IV Bridge, also showing the people on the footpath outside and traffic on the road.

Doors open Day: Creative cinema club crafternoon

Workshop, Doors Open Days
19 September 2026, 10:30AM to 3:30PM
A decorated glass jar surround by tissue paper, scissors and popcorn.

Welcome to the Library tours

Tour
19 September 2026, 11:30AM to 12:00PM
The outside of the Library building on George IV Bridge, also showing the people on the footpath outside and traffic on the road.

River, stream, water: How Gaelic flows through the landscape

Talk
19 September 2026, 2:00PM to 3:00PM
View of a loch and glen in Glencoe.

Open Book

Reading
21 September 2026, 10:15AM to 11:15AM
A group of people sitting around a table reading books.

Bookbug

Workshop
24 September 2026, 10:30AM to 11:00AM
The bookbug on a green background

Welcome to the Library tours

Tour
24 September 2026, 3:00PM to 3:30PM
The outside of the Library building on George IV Bridge, also showing the people on the footpath outside and traffic on the road.

A celebration of the dreich

Talk
24 September 2026, 5:30PM to 6:30PM
Book cover with the title "Scotland the Dreich, a celebration of all that is dreich". Showing a caravan on the side of the road in a drizzly landscape.