Experiencing Meppen’s history in the Arenbergian Rentei

ehemalige arenbergische Rentei Meppen, Deutschland

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 [...]

Under the microscope

Emsland Archäologie Museum

At the beginning of 2023, the Emsland Archaeology Museum received as a gift from the heirs of an enthusiastic amateur archaeologist his collection of archaeologically relevant finds. For decades, the hobbyist meticulously searched the fields around Haren for relics from the Stone Age. The "little stones" collected over many years turned out to be [...]

From stone to tool

Emsland Archäologie Museum

In the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Archaeology are exhibited many "stones", which are blades of tools and weapons from long ago. But how does a stone become a tool? This requires a lot of knowledge, craftsmanship and certain processing techniques that hardly anyone knows today - this knowledge has not been needed [...]

House of Little Explorers – City, Country, Forest – Exploring and Designing Habitats

Emsland Archäologie Museum

Last year, the Emsland Archaeology Museum made its premises available for the further training of specialists and teachers as part of the "Haus der kleinen Forscher" project. That afternoon, the results of the workshops will be presented in the atrium of the Emsland Archaeology Museum. But the training program goes into another round: On [...]

From the village to the city. The territorial reform of 1974 in the Meppen area

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

With the "Law on the Reorganization of the Municipalities in the Meppen Area" in March 1974, a total of 13 once independent villages became parts of the Meppen municipal area. The incorporation of the villages of Apeldorn, Bokeloh, Borken, Groß Fullen, Klein Fullen, Helte, Hemsen, Holthausen, Hüntel, Rühle, Schwefingen, Teglingen and Versen was intended [...]

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 [...]

Ceramic workshop: Free fruit shapes

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse, Remise Meppen

You don't want a predefined theme, because you appreciate the fact that you can work without fixed guidelines? Go ahead, then you are in the right place. In this course, sculptor Christa Baumgärtel gives them the opportunity to realize their self-chosen theme - whether figurative or abstract. Here, nuts, seeds, poppy capsules and fruits [...]

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 [...]

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