With funds from the city's "Perspective on the City Center" development program, an ensemble of experience and information rooms on the city's history as well as attractive information islands with innovative mediation offers on local history were created and set up in the rooms of the former Arenbergische Rentei. This includes a digital city [...]
With over 160 works by 60 artists, the exhibition center Gut Altenkamp presents or presented a multifaceted insight into the art landscape and regional history of the Emsland until August 2024. The exhibition is the result of an intensive search for artistic traces that poses the question: Who was artistically active in Emsland, when and [...]
Yvonne Zoberbier's sculptures are astonishing in their unusual processing of felt into human figures and heads, which have an aesthetic appeal all of their own. Her sculptures, consistently left in white natural wool, create a reference to the works of antiquity that have come down to us, without copying them. Rather, each work develops a [...]
The course is aimed at beginners, the curious and anyone who would like to familiarize themselves with clay as a material. The highlight of the course is the final firing of the pottery work in the raku kiln. Under guidance, candlesticks/light objects will be created, the surface of which will be fired using the raku [...]
Lecture with Clémence Rousset, scientific volunteer at the Emsland Archaeology Museum Clémence Rousset wrote her final thesis on the social structure of beggars in ancient Greece. Clémence Rousset studied at the Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (Université PSL for short), one of the most prestigious universities in France, and graduated with a Master's degree in [...]
In the Open Studio we meet to create art together. Everyone who wants to develop their artistic skills is welcome here - children and adults, people with and without previous experience, newcomers and "old hands"! The focus is on the joy of creating. There is an opportunity to try your hand at various materials: The [...]
In this course no theme is given; you can realize your own ideas - whether figurative or abstract. The artist Christa Baumgärtel gives you the freedom to develop your own themes and realize them in clay. Sculpture offers a wide range of possibilities in terms of content and form. For example, nature can be used [...]
The dust of everyday life... ...like an archaeologist, with a brush, very carefully wiped aside. Piece by piece. It takes patience and good teamwork to safely unearth the treasure. Artistic creation can also help to uncover valuable discoveries within yourself. We embark on an artistic search for traces of the wonderful things that lie dormant [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Last year, the Emsland Archaeology Museum made its premises available for the further training of specialists and teachers as part of the "Children's Research Foundation" project. In 2025, the training program will enter another round: the Emsland Archaeology Museum will continue to make its training rooms available for the project on the dates listed below. [...]
Lecture with Christina Peek, researcher in the textile archaeology department of the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research There were and are three "hotspots" in Emsland district archaeology, namely settlement relics in Geeste, Walchum and Haren. In recent years, excavations have been carried out there during the expansion of building areas. The results in [...]
Kulturnetzwerk Koppelschleuse Meppen
Helter Damm 1
DE 49716 Meppen
Tel.: 05931 7575
info@koppelschleuse-meppen.de
www.koppelschleuse-meppen.de
© Copyright 2025 | Cultural Network Koppelschleuse Meppen
Kulturnetzwerk Koppelschleuse Meppen
Helter Damm 1
DE 49716 Meppen
Tel.: 05931 7575
info@koppelschleuse-meppen.de
www.koppelschleuse-meppen.de
© Copyright 2025 | Cultural Network Koppelschleuse Meppen
