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 [...]

Art in Emsland – a journey through time from 1866 to 1973

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen, Deutschland

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 [...]

ANGESICHT – Sculptures in felt

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse An der Koppelschleuse 19, Meppen, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

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 [...]

Open studio

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse, Remise Meppen

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 [...]

10,45€

Lecture: Art from the “Emsland camps”

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen, Deutschland

The 15 so-called "Emsland camps" existed from 1933 to 1945. In total around 80,000 concentration camp prisoners and more than 100,000 prisoners of war were interned here and suffered the cruellest treatment. Hunger, deprivation, inhumane living conditions and forced labor shaped the daily lives of the prisoners. In the midst of terror and suffering, however, [...]

6€

Soapstone figures

Soapstone is a soft stone that can be easily worked with rasps and files to create small sculptures. It's a lot of fun. You need a little stamina, but in the end you have created a unique object.   Management: Dipl. Art therapist Anke Keuter Age: Adults Dates: Wednesday, 12.2.2025, 12.3.2025, 23.4.2025, each 7 - [...]

Children’s Research Foundation

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 "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. [...]

Concert: Morley

Café Koppelschleuse An d. Koppelschleuse 20, Meppen

This unmistakable magic, when exactly the right minds come together and everything harmonizes in a wonderful way, remains the most valuable characteristic of timeless music. Such processes are usually inexplicable, as is the case with Morley. One thing is certain: The organic lightness with which her polyphonic harmony singing floats through the atmosphere is extraordinary. [...]

13€

Open studio

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse, Remise Meppen

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 [...]

10,45€

Art therapy program for young people aged 16 and over and adults – “Traces of the soul”

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 [...]

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 [...]

Driftwood wreath

We will paint individual pieces of driftwood in different colors according to our mood. A decorative wooden wreath is then formed and glued onto an MDF ring. The result brings a vacation feeling into your home. I'm looking forward to a nice, creative evening with you. Head: Kerstin Albers Age: young people from 16 and [...]

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