With the special exhibition "Water, washboard, soap suds - on the cultural history of washing" the Emsland Archaeology Museum starts into the new season. At the latest with the "invention" of clothing began all "misery" - namely, the need to clean not only the body, but also dirty clothes. In solving this problem, mankind has [...]
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 model, [...]
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 the [...]
It looks like a somewhat oversized gravy boat and disappears under the long lady's skirt ... At Clemenswerth Castle in Sögel, there is such an object in the porcelain collection, the so-called Strasbourg faiences. But in the castle kitchen or even on the festively decorated table, this object really has no place! It is in [...]
WIM aka Nina Müller is like a hidden object of quiet questions to life. "What is music?" could be one of them. Then maybe WIM's answer would be: close, dusty, tender, in a bit sad, light-footed, filigree and pure. On her debut album BOXER, WIM carefully and sharply observes the present, bringing together the best [...]
In the Open Studio we meet to create art together. Here, everyone is welcome who has the desire to develop artistically - children and adults, advanced and beginners, newcomers and "old hands"! The focus is on the joy of creating. There is an opportunity to try your hand at various materials: The premises of the [...]
This event has been cancelled!!! Fancy your own happiness in one piece? This is easily done with a bar of natural soap, consisting of vegetable and essential oils, flowers and herbs. Sonja Schulte with her "Sauerland Soaps" has the environment and the body in mind during soap production! Because soap made from natural ingredients not [...]
On the second Sunday of every month, parents can enjoy a hearty breakfast at the Youth and Cultural Guest House while the children give free rein to their creativity at the Art School. The breakfast buffet is available from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and costs €7.50 for adults and children 12 and older and €4 [...]
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 they wish. Here everyone can work [...]
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 the [...]
In 1543, Franz von Waldeck, Bishop of Münster and thus sovereign of the Lower Abbey, introduced the Reformation in Emsland and Meppen. The Protestant confession was to hold sway in the region for almost 70 years before Catholicism reasserted itself in the course of the Counter-Reformation. In the 1530s, however, von Waldeck initially had to [...]
The Meppen Art Circle invites you to this year's pottery market on the idyllic grounds of the Art Center. About 30 professional ceramists will again show masterful ceramic art. This year you will again come across "old" well-known ceramists, such as Frauke Schlegelmilch with the special salt shakers and Nadine Breulmann with figurative ceramics. But [...]
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 the [...]
Sean Taylor's unique songwriting is a cocktail of Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Jack Kerouac. With a voice that's a cross between John Martyn and Van Morrison, and a guitar style that sounds like an acoustic Stevie Ray Vaughan jamming with JJ Cale. His distinctive vocals are likely to be just one of his trademarks. [...]
In the Open Studio we meet to create art together. Here, everyone is welcome who has the desire to develop artistically - children and adults, advanced and beginners, newcomers and "old hands"! The focus is on the joy of creating. There is an opportunity to try your hand at various materials: The premises of the [...]
The XIX Legion was already established at the time of the Roman Civil War in 41/40 BC by the later Emperor Augustus. It is one of those three legions that were destroyed in the famous "Varus Battle" at Kalkriese in the Teutoburg Forest in the year 9 AD. A group of enthusiastic hobbyists is reviving [...]
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 king, [...]
"ParkLicht" features a course of six light art installations. The works of artists from all over Germany react to their surroundings, enter into dialogue with the park and with the coincidences of weather, atmosphere, time of day and season. The artists accentuate undiscovered places, modify known places, create new spaces. The site is opened up [...]
As part of the exhibition project "ParkLicht. Lichtkunst an der Koppelschleuse", curated by Dirk Raulf, six light installations by artists from all over Germany will be shown at the Koppelschleuse from September 29 to October 29: A man in a gray suit carries a street lamp on his shoulder, in his hand he carries a [...]
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 [...]