Oxford Open Doors 2025 Bookable Events | Oxford Preservation Trust

If you are interested in any of the events on this page that require booking, please click on each event to view its specific booking information, as the details vary for every event.

Please note that Oxford Castle and Prison will now open on a drop-in basis (Sunday 14 September): Oxford Castle and Prison | Oxford Preservation Trust

Friday and Saturday

A modern brown brick building with rectangular wings and a long central staircase.

Bodleian Libraries - Law Library

Saturday and Sunday

A leafy driveway leading up to a domestic house, with balloons and an Oxford Open Doors poster.

Energy Saving Homes

A cream-coloured buildings around a courtyard, with a minaret in the background.

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

A blue circle with a grey crest displaying a red ox over water. The inscription reads Oxford Guild of Tour Guides

Oxford Guild of Tour Guides - City Walking Tour

A very large Victorian brick building with three union jacks flying outside an arch doorway.

The Randolph Hotel

Two silhouetted figures stand in front of the illuminated facade of a white building with pillars and a sign reading The Ultimate Picture Palace.

Ultimate Picture Palace Cinema

A terraced row of brick Victorian houses, with a modern building in the centre, with green copper-framed windows and rust-coloured metal cladding.

Vishuddha Yoga Centre

Saturday Only

A carved wooden screen in a stone cathedral building with a clear arched window in the background. A stone tomb is visible to the right-hand side.

Chapel of Remembrance, Christ Church Cathedral

A group of visitors look around in a quadrangle surrounded by stone buildings, with a fountain in the centre.

A large building made of sand-coloured stone with large windows, multiple chimneys and an ornate porch.

Examination Schools

A woman sits and a man stands behind a wooden window frame.

Forgotten Stories of Oxford Tour with Rawz

Five headstones in the shape of crosses stand in a grassy area, shaded by a tree.

Gravestone Geology Walk - Holywell Cemetery

A black and white photograph of a brick brewery building and a yard filled with horses and carts and their drivers. The brewery's sign reads C. A. Hanley City Brewery

Modern Art Oxford

A guide in an orange shirt points at a history display during a tour to members of the public.

Museum of Oxford

A collage of three photos: A large stone building with double height windows, a crest with a red ox crossing a blue river and a black and white photo of a nurse and patient in an early 20th century hospital.

Oxford Town Hall

A three-storey brick building with regular white frame windows and a carved stone entrance up a flight of stone steps.

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

The interior of a Victorian brick building with striped arches and an ironwork roof.

A Story in Stone: Oxford University Museum of Natural History

A man stands in front of a staircase wearing a jacket and tie.

St John's College International Piano Series Launch: Viv McLean

Sunday Only

A tour guide with a tote bag that says Uncomfortable Oxford speaking in front of a square stone castle tower.

Getting Medieval: an Uncomfortable Oxford Tour

A lush churchyard with stone headstone and a path leading to a red roofed stone church with a tower.

Gravestone Geology Walk - St Mary and St John, Cowley Road

A path leading around a stone church building into a shaded tree-filled cemetery beyond.

Gravestone Geology Walk - St Sepulchre’s Cemetery

A poster for a concert by Pavlova Wind Quintet with an image of a stone theatre building and the title Light Music for an Autumn Afternoon.

Pavlova Wind Quintet at the Sheldonian Theatre

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OPT team with balloons at OPT hub

Open Doors Guides

Two groups of people standing outside a historic stone building. An ironwork fence displays bunting.

Oxford Open Doors 2025 Drop-in Events

A group of visitors walk through a seventeenth-century quadrangle of an Oxford college.

Oxford Open Doors