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In my current game, started since I downloaded the Fortress expansion, I have found the Mystic Emprium permanently closed. There have even been people waiting outside to go in for the whole of one day until 'closing time'. The only way I have been able to enter is to go into sneak mode and unlock the door; once in, it is fine, I can buy and sell ok, and the store is open as it should be when I leave. But come back the next day, it is all locked up again and I have to the thing over again, waiting until customers are not waiting and no-one is looking before I can break in again.

It's getting to be a bit of a pain in the butt. Short of starting over with a new game - which I tried, and the shop is open as normal - is there any way of fixing this problem?

It is a known bug... There is a fix though:

The below patch covers all of the official expansions, you select those you are actually using during installation.
Unofficial Official Mods Patch - Planet Elder Scrolls

Failing that, though it is immersion breaking, you can just bring up the console (hit the ~ key which is to the left of the #1 key), click on the door with your cursor, and type in "unlock" (without the quotes), and hit Enter. This will open the door with no penalties.

Thanks, dragon wench. I'll try 'em!

I checked out the site - which looks very interesting, btw - but they hedged their bets so much with the fixes that I decided to give it a miss!
I used the console command instead and it worked perfectly.