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, [...]
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 [...]
"Art washes the dust of everyday life from the soul" (P. Picasso) With this course we would like to make you a special offer: Within the framework of an art-therapeutic workshop you have the opportunity to come back to yourself. It should serve as a time-out from stresses and exhaustion and help you to gather [...]
When you paint a picture, you intuitively create exactly the mood it needs to feel good. Landscapes, faces, animals or abstract painting. Each participant paints what he/she has long wanted to paint - under the guidance and assistance of the instructor. Paints and brushes are available. Canvases are to be brought along. Management: Hille Korte [...]
For the eighth time, the cultural network Koppelschleuse offers an entertaining and exciting mixture of literature and music with the Meppen Crime Days. With four events at different locations in the city, the audience is offered a diverse program. With Judith Merchant, Patricia Brandt, Jochen Bender and Klaus-Peter Wolf, well-known personalities could be won for [...]
At the Meppen Crime Days, Judith Merchant reads from her novel "Schweig! What would you do to save your sister? And what to get rid of them? The day before Christmas Eve, Esther drives into the woods to her sister's house to bring her a gift and a bottle of wine. A snowstorm sets in. [...]
In the otherwise idyllic Hohwacht on the Baltic coast, there is one big mess: chicken farmer Bartelsen is planning a fattening house and is murdered. The bearish inspector Oke Oltmanns investigates between the angry members of "Hühner ohne Grenzen e. V.", who demonstrate against the planned fattening house, and indignant tourists who settle in his [...]
Just a quick trip to the toilet, then quickly back to the safe car ... Svenja Behrendt has no idea that death is waiting for her right there. She will never come to Sweden by ferry. Strangled, she remains in her car on the quay as morning dawns. In the brutal murder case, inspector Frauke [...]
Klaus-Peter Wolf lives as a freelance writer in the East Frisian town of Norden, where his hero Dr. Bernhard Sommerfeldt also practiced as a family doctor. Klaus-Peter Wolf's books have won numerous awards, and many of his scripts for "Tatort" and "Polizeiruf 110" have been filmed. Both the East Frisian crime novels with Ann Kathrin [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
At the beginning of 2023, the Emsland Archaeology Museum received as a gift from the heirs of an enthusiastic amateur archaeologist his collection of archaeologically relevant finds. For decades, the hobbyist meticulously searched the fields around Haren for relics from the Stone Age. The "little stones" collected over many years turned out to be a [...]
In the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Archaeology are exhibited many "stones", which are blades of tools and weapons from long ago. But how does a stone become a tool? This requires a lot of knowledge, craftsmanship and certain processing techniques that hardly anyone knows today - this knowledge has not been needed for [...]
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 [...]
Are you afraid to even begin to paint, draw, or to plasticize because you lack the space and room? Have you already the most beautiful colors or pens at home for years, but you lack the Leisure? Why not rather be creative together with other people and get be carried away by the inspiring atmosphere? [...]
With the "Law on the Reorganization of the Municipalities in the Meppen Area" in March 1974, a total of 13 once independent villages became parts of the Meppen municipal area. The incorporation of the villages of Apeldorn, Bokeloh, Borken, Groß Fullen, Klein Fullen, Helte, Hemsen, Holthausen, Hüntel, Rühle, Schwefingen, Teglingen and Versen was intended to [...]
You don't want a predefined theme, because you appreciate the fact that you can work without fixed guidelines? Go ahead, then you are in the right place. In this course, sculptor Christa Baumgärtel gives them the opportunity to realize their self-chosen theme - whether figurative or abstract. Here, nuts, seeds, poppy capsules and fruits can [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]