• Lecture: History before eight: “Elisabeth Schlicht”

    Emsland Archäologie Museum

    “Elisabeth Schlicht”, District archaeologist and finissage of the exhibition Dr. Elisabeth Schlicht - the first female district archaeologist in Emsland. At a time of great change and rapid infrastructural development, she was committed to the protection of many endangered archaeological monuments in Emsland. With few resources and in a strongly male-dominated (specialist) world, she campaigned [...]

  • FIGURA 4 – Painting

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

    This exhibition brings together the works of renowned artists Oleksii Gnievyshev, Lena Krashevka and Maxim Probst, who each reflect in a unique way on the connection between art, freedom and self-determination. Oleksii Gnievyshev, born in the Ukraine, combines classical painting techniques with contemporary themes and questions social norms and constraints through his works. Lena Krashevka, [...]

  • Roman silver coin

    Emsland Archäologie Museum

    East Frisian coin treasure meets Emsland treasures Volunteers make a valuable contribution to archaeology - as the Filsum silver treasure shows. In 2021, a team of five certified explorers discovered 96 Roman silver coins from the 1. and The site was already known in 1850, but was forgotten. Through meticulous research, the exact location was [...]

  • Open Monument Day

    Arenbergische Rentei

    Open Monument Day in the Arenberg Pension The classicist building of the Arenbergische Rentei in Meppen is open from 2 to 5 p.m. on the occasion of the "Open Monument Day" campaign. Insights are given into the building and its history, but also into the reign of the Dukes of Arenberg, who were sovereigns in [...]

  • Edible wild plants: Discover, identify and use

    Edible wild plants: Discover, identify and use Would you like to know how to touch nettles without stinging yourself? How to make a natural toothbrush from a hazelnut bush? Or which herb is best for a cough tea? Then join us on a wild herb tour! After a short welcome at the Koppelschleuse art school, [...]

    22,00€
  • Cyanotype workshop: Photographing without a camera!

    Cyanotype Workshop: Photographing without a camera! Create unique photographs with the iron blue printing process! During a small excursion into nature we collect our picture material. Leaves, sticks, sand or other objects form our motifs and can be photographed entirely without a camera. The participants now place their picture on the solar photo paper as [...]

    30,00€
  • 33rd Emsland Pottery Market

    Emsland pottery market The Meppen Art Circle invites you to this year's pottery market on the idyllic grounds of the Art Center. Between the youth and cultural guest house, the museums at the Koppelschleuse and the buildings of the Kunstkreis, around 30 professional ceramists will once again be exhibiting masterful ceramic art. This year you [...]

  • Lecture “History of the Meppen Fortress”

    Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen, Deutschland

    After the fully authorized town of Meppen received the right to do so from the Bishop of Münster in 1360, the first town fortifications were built soon afterwards: a rectangular rampart, perhaps reinforced with palisades, a surrounding moat and four town gates: Hase-, Ems-, Mark- and Merschporte. The complex appears to have been reinforced with [...]

    14,00€
  • Painting course with pastels

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

    Painting course with pastels Painting with pastels - for beginners and advanced students We capture the vastness of the sky, dunes and beaches, seals and shells (as in my painting courses on Spiekeroog) ... or Emsland landscapes, flowers, abstract forms or "soul pictures" with pastels. Materials such as 30 x 40 cm handmade paper and [...]

    125,00€
  • Lecture “Is there a Low German canon?” by Prof. Dr. Doreen Brandt

    Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen, Deutschland

    Is there a Low German canon? And if so, why do we need one? Questions about Low German literature from the 19th century to the present day German literature is packed with outstanding works and authors such as Goethe, Schiller, Kafka, Mann and Grass. Everyone is probably familiar with texts by authors from the German-language [...]

  • History and stories – The Stumbling Stones Initiative presents the Jewish cemetery in Meppen.

    Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen, Deutschland

    The Jewish cemetery is the oldest evidence of Jewish life in Meppen. When the first Jews settled in the town around 1700, they acquired an elongated sand dune on the northern bank of the River Hase in order to bury their dead according to religious rites. This place with its long history will be presented [...]

  • Ceramics seminar: Build-up technique with porcelain

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

    Ceramics seminar: Build-up technique with porcelain Kiho Kang from Bad Ems will be holding the ceramics seminar at the Meppen art circle. In Seoul he completed his Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts. He then went on to study at the Institute for Artistic Ceramics and Glass in Koblenz. He has already received many awards [...]

    220,00€
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