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, [...]
The dinosaurs are on the loose in Emsland! From June 2024, the Emsland Archaeology Museum in Meppen will be showing the special exhibition "Urmel, Urzeit, Ungetüme: Dinosaurier & Co...". This exhibition has much more to offer than just dinosaurs! Life-size reconstructions of long-extinct animals and impressive, lifelike dioramas are used to show the evolutionary history [...]
Video installation, ink drawing, collage The properties of water, the natural flow behavior of ink dissolved in water and the associated traces and forms form the basis of Anne Nissen's paper and video works. Drawing ink dissolved in water, driven by air movement or following the force of gravity in the water, becomes visible as [...]
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, [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
- 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The artist Anne Nissen will give a guided tour of her exhibition at the Koppelschleuse art center. Place: Koppelschleuse Art Center Start: 3 pm Admission: free
Carrie Clark & the Lonesome Lovers (USA) draw from a wide range of Americana, folk and rock genres to create their very own flavor of modern pop honkey-tonk. They will be touring Europe to showcase their latest album "Split at the Seams", which was completed during the Corona pandemic and has been described as expansive, [...]
When you paint a picture, you intuitively create exactly the right mood, that you need right now to feel good. Landscapes, Faces, animals or abstract painting. Everyone does what they already wanted to paint for a long time, with my guidance and help. Paints and brushes are available. Canvases are to be brought along. [...]
Pottery course for beginners and the curious, on 02. and November 09, 2024 Discover pottery without a wheel, with slab and body techniques This course offers the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the material clay. Under guidance, a 1.60 / 1.80 meter high stele for the garden is to be created On the first course [...]
When you paint a picture, you intuitively create exactly the right mood, that you need right now to feel good. Landscapes, Faces, animals or abstract painting. Everyone does what they already wanted to paint for a long time, with my guidance and help. Paints and brushes are available. Canvases are to be brought along. [...]