International Museum Day

The museums at the Koppelschleuse - Emsland Archaeology and the Meppen City Museum - will once again be taking part in International Museum Day in 2024. Both institutions offer a joint, colorful museum program with public guided tours and a varied range of games for younger museum guests. Coffee, cake and cold drinks are provided.

Treasure hunters among themselves

Emsland Archäologie Museum

By popular demand, District Archaeologist Thomas Kassens offers an informal meeting for metal detectorists on the last Thursday of each month. Treasure hunting was already a topic in the early Middle Ages. From this time comes the so-called "Schatzregal", which states that all finds deeper than a plowshare (about 30 cm) belong to the king, [...]

Dragon spectacle for young and old

Emsland Archäologie Museum

The dinosaurs are coming to Emsland! On the occasion of the opening weekend, the friendly and extremely pretty dragon lady Lissy, who comes to the Koppelschleuse with her baby, gives the monsters and museum guests a very special welcome. With her big blue googly eyes and irresistible look, Lissy takes children's hearts by storm and [...]

3€ – 9€

Treasure hunters among themselves

Emsland Archäologie Museum

By popular demand, District Archaeologist Thomas Kassens offers an informal meeting for metal detectorists on the last Thursday of each month. Treasure hunting was already a topic in the early Middle Ages. From this time comes the so-called "Schatzregal", which states that all finds deeper than a plowshare (about 30 cm) belong to the king, [...]

Sculptors – Summer academy “With hand and heart”

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse, Remise Meppen

You would like to creatively implement your own ideas and designs in stone? Would you like to try something new or deepen your existing knowledge? Then our sculpting course is just right for you! This year, Juri Platon is accompanying us as a lecturer at the Summer Academy. Look forward to working with the different [...]

Treasure hunters among themselves

Emsland Archäologie Museum

Communication, exchange of experiences, news: District archaeologist Thomas Kassens is available to volunteer metal detectorists at an informal meeting on the last Thursday of every month. Treasure hunting was already a topic in the early Middle Ages. From this time comes the so-called "Schatzregal", which states that all finds deeper than a plowshare (about 30 [...]

Public guided tour of the Meppen City Museum

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

In the fall of 2020, the newly established Meppen City Museum opened its doors at the Koppelschleuse. During a 60-minute guided tour of the museum, visitors will get to know the new museum and learn many interesting facts about the history of Meppen. You will travel through time with experienced museum guides who are happy [...]

New research on the history of the Jewish cemetery in Meppen Lecture by Manfred Fickers (in cooperation with the Initiativkreis Stolpersteine Meppen)

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

The Jewish cemetery in the street "An der Hütte" is the oldest and only surviving evidence of Jewish life in Meppen. The first Jews settled in the town of Meppen around 1700. They acquired an elongated plot of land east of the town near the Hasen to bury their dead here according to Jewish rites. [...]

Treasure hunters among themselves

Emsland Archäologie Museum

Communication, exchange of experiences, news: District archaeologist Thomas Kassens is available to volunteer metal detectorists at an informal meeting on the last Thursday of every month. Treasure hunting was already a topic in the early Middle Ages. From this time comes the so-called "Schatzregal", which states that all finds deeper than a plowshare (about 30 [...]

Public guided tour of the Meppen City Museum

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

In the fall of 2020, the newly established Meppen City Museum opened its doors at the Koppelschleuse. During a 60-minute guided tour of the museum, visitors will get to know the new museum and learn many interesting facts about the history of Meppen. You will travel through time with experienced museum guides who are happy [...]

Day of the Open Monument in the Arenberg Rentei

"True signs. Contemporary witnesses of history" - focusing on monuments as authentic testimonies - is the motto of this year's Open Monument Day. On September 8, 2024, millions of culture fans across Germany will be able to experience that monuments are "true signs": They symbolize history, time periods and regions as well as very personal [...]

Poetry and music at the Arenbergische Rentei Reading with Christian Quaing, Jan Bernd Müller and Gesche Gloystein

The town museum and the Meppen local history association cordially invite you to a cozy literary evening with old and new local history poems in the Biedermeier room in the Arenbergische Rentei. In the impressive historical ambience of a Meppen bourgeois parlor from around 1900, the guests first fortify themselves with chicory coffee and buckwheat [...]

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