Open House Brno returns on 17–18 May 2025, opening 118 sites across the South Moravian capital for free guided tours. Now in its eighth edition, the festival invites locals and visitors to discover the legacies that architects and urban planners have left—and continue to leave—throughout the city.

„A city is a living, ever-evolving organism – shaped by its people, buildings, and the way space is organised. Each generation leaves behind its imprint. For the 2025 edition of the festival, we want to draw visitors’ attention not only to the buildings whose value has stood the test of time and earned heritage protection but also to those places and structures that have so far remained somewhat out of the spotlight,” says Lucie Pešl Šilerová, Creative Director of Open House Brno from the Kultura & Management Association.

This year’s theme for the Open House Brno festival will be exploring the legacy for the future, forming a part of a broader 2025 programme of Open House Europe, titled “Future Heritage”. “With the theme Future Heritage, Open House Brno seeks to spark a conversation about the temporal dimension of the word ‘heritage’. Depending on the generation of modern architects in question, “heritage” might refer to buildings from various time periods or architectural styles. The festival will therefore open the doors to significant structures from different eras—interwar buildings, often functionalist in style, post-war structures, frequently brutalist, as well as works of contemporary architecture. We aim to highlight how seemingly fixed concepts such as past, present and future are, in fact, rather fluid in the world of architecture,” says the festival Curator, Šárka Bahounková.

A special spotlight is placed on the work of Bohuslav Fuchs, one of Brno’s most prominent architects. Visitors can explore an exhibition in a tram named after the architect. Tours of Fuchs’ buildings will, of course, be an integral part of the main programme. They will be accompanied by popular programme highlights such as the Constitutional Court, the Observation Tower of Brno Exhibition Centre, and the AZ Tower, as well as new entries like Villa Wittal, the St Kunhuta Pharmacy at the Military Hospital, and the Lužánky swimming stadium.

Brno will also host the Visual Stories exhibition at the Brno City Chief Architect‘s Office. The exhibition showcases the winning works from the 2024 open call for Visual Stories and invites new participants to reflect on this year’s theme through visual storytelling.

We invite all visitors of Open House Brno to participate in the Open Call for Visual Stories—an opportunity to creatively interpret the festival experience and this year’s Open House Europe theme, “Future Heritage”. Submissions can take any visual form, including photography, short film, drawing, or other artistic expressions.