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The Sheffield culture guide written by in-the-know locals

Sheffield Heritage Open Days

Fri. 12 September 2025 — Sun. 21 September 2025

Free

Each September, doors to cultural treasures open all over the country for Heritage Open Days. Ten days dedicated to free heritage exploration, led by local experts and volunteers.

Come back soon for details of Sheffield's Heritage Open Days 2025.

The city’s Heritage Open Days programme is coordinated by Sheffield Civic Trust.

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Park Hill Tour – Walk the Streets in the Sky

Multiple dates

Park Hill

Park Hill Residents’ Association invite you on a resident-led tour to walk along the Streets in the Sky, where you'll learn about the history of Sheffield's brutalist icon.

Kelham Island Museum

Kelham Island is one of the city's oldest industrial sites. Find out about the buffer girls, grinders and little mesters whose skills and sweating brows are to thank for establishing world renown for the words "Made in Sheffield".

National Emergency Services Museum

Housed in the old fire, police and ambulance station, this museum offers lessons in everything from the origins of the name "bobbies" to why hoax 999 calls are bad. There are lots of vehicles to climb on and uniforms to climb in, too.

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet

A unique 18th-century scythe-making works, Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet is a piece of Sheffield’s history preserved. Explore the workers' cottages while the sounds of hammering and grinding float out of the working hand forge.