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, [...]
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 [...]
An ensemble of "experience and information rooms on Meppen's town history" and attractive information islands with innovative educational offers on local history were created on the premises of the former Arenbergische Rentei with funds from the municipal funding program "Perspektive Innenstadt". These include a digital model of the town, an exciting introductory film on Meppen's [...]
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 [...]
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 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. and costs €8.90 for adults and children aged 12 and over [...]
The historian Ewald Frie uses the example of his family to tell how the rural farming world of his farming parents came to an end, his siblings followed other lifestyles and the general social change gripped the country. Ewald Frie asked his ten siblings, born between 1944 and 1969, how they experienced this time. His [...]
Life is a rollercoaster ride of emotions, they say, the ups and downs always catch us unexpectedly around the next bend, making us revel, doubt or regret. And yet it's the swings in one direction or another that always provide the special moments, the ones that ultimately stick - it's the mix that makes it. [...]
On this lecture evening, we will look beyond the horizon: the renowned archaeologist Dr. Jan Kegler, head of the Archaeological Research Institute of the East Frisian Landscape, will be a guest at the Archaeology Museum and will report on examples of excavations and research results from his area of responsibility. In the northern neighboring district [...]
Are you afraid to start painting, drawing or sculpting at home because you don't have the space or room? Have you had the most beautiful paints or pens at home for years, but don't have the time? Why not be creative together with other people and let yourself be carried away by the inspiring atmosphere? [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]