Doors Open Days at The Briggait, Glasgow

Visitors are invited to explore the former fish market building and meet the working artists in their studios for Doors Open Days.

The Briggait is one of Glasgow’s most significant historic market buildings, located on Bridgegate in the city’s Merchant City. Completed in 1873 to designs by Clarke & Bell, it was built as Glasgow’s purpose-built fish market, replacing earlier open-air trading and reflecting the city’s rapid industrial growth. The complex expanded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and incorporates the Merchants’ Steeple, a landmark dating from 1655, which survives from the former Merchants’ House.

Today, The Briggait provides artists’ studios, exhibition spaces and venues for cultural events, representing a successful example of Glasgow’s industrial heritage being adapted for contemporary use while preserving one of the city’s finest Victorian market halls.

To book a spot on one of the guided tours with a member of the Wasps team, click here for the Eventbrite.