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 [...]

The Nordhorn artist Hans Ohlms – Five Act Fantasy with Raphael Oettel, Carsten Krabbe and Anselm Oettel (Compilation: Franco Zapondi (Accademia di Belle Arti) Assistance and lecture: Ulrich Oettel)

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

Hans Ohlms was one of the most influential artists in the region in the 1960s. He created landscape paintings, portraits, commercial graphics and caricatures, as well as sculptural works and public art. In Meppen, he designed the windows of the Gustav Adolf Church, among other things. From the end of the 1930s onwards, he created [...]

With fineliner to a small work of art

There is an artist in everyone. Come and try it out. We draw small motifs on watercolor paper with the finest fineliner and then paint them with watercolor crayons and brushes. The result is wonderful watercolor pictures that make you smile. Your own ideas are always welcome. Previous knowledge is not required. I would be [...]

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 [...]

Creative with paper

Paper is a very interesting and versatile material. There are many ways to use paper creatively and make beautiful things. For example, we want to treat it so that it feels and looks like leather. We can marble paper, treat it so that it looks like it has been scooped and make notebooks and beautiful [...]

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