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 [...]

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 [...]

Art in the evening

Clay has been known to us humans for thousands of years. From my therapeutic and art school work, I know how much fascination the material exerts on children and adults alike and that it is simply relaxing and exciting at the same time to work with clay. It's also fun. We shape smaller and larger [...]

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 [...]

Workshop – Paper making

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

Paper making workshop for beginners and advanced students, from September 27 - 29, 2024 "Paper, paper, paper is created here!" - Kati Knevels Recycling - many talk about it, we do it and create small works of art at the same time. We create a fiber pulp and create individual papers with small screens. There [...]

Simon Kempston

Café Koppelschleuse An d. Koppelschleuse 20, Meppen

Scottish singer-songwriter and leading acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Simon Kempston has toured the world and created his highly original, contemporary, acoustic folk/blues songs and music in their luggage. He is a unique talent on the guitar. His beautifully crafted, folksy material showcases his incredible, distinctive and intricate finger-style guitar work - an exciting blend of folk-baroque, [...]

Bye, bye dinosaurs – exhibition finissage

Emsland Archäologie Museum

As soon as they arrive, they're gone again: this Sunday we have to say goodbye to the dinosaurs at the Emsland Archaeology Museum. At the end of the "Urmel, Urzeit, Ungetüme" exhibition, the winners of the painting competition will be announced at the finissage. For children, there will once again be a great craft activity [...]

Ceramics workshop – Built shapes from colored clay

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

Ceramics seminar for beginners and advanced students, from October 11 - 13, 2024 Built forms from colored clay - Dorothee Wenz Dorothee Wenz from Schwabenheim will lead this year's ceramics workshop at the Meppener Kunstkreis. After studying art education and fine arts at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, she has been working as a [...]

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 [...]

History before eight: Man and hunting 400,000 years ago – lecture canceled

Emsland Archäologie Museum

- This lecture is canceled - About the oldest surviving hunting weapon in the world. State archaeologist Dr. Henning Hassmann talks about the Schöningen spears They are between 290,000 and 337,000 years old and were once used for hunting by one of our ancestors, homo heidel-bergensis: The Schöningen spears. This makes them the oldest surviving [...]

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 [...]

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