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 over 160 works by 60 artists, the exhibition center Gut Altenkamp presents or presented a multifaceted insight into the art landscape and regional history of the Emsland until August 2024. The exhibition is the result of an intensive search for artistic traces that poses the question: Who was artistically active in Emsland, when and [...]
Helga Baltabol was born in Riga in 1913, but had to flee from Lithuania to Upper Silesia in 1918 after the October Revolution, where she found a new home. She attended the State Academy of Arts and Crafts in Dresden and then worked as a freelance graphic designer. After the Second World War, she first [...]
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 [...]
Yvonne Zoberbier's sculptures are astonishing in their unusual processing of felt into human figures and heads, which have an aesthetic appeal all of their own. Her sculptures, consistently left in white natural wool, create a reference to the works of antiquity that have come down to us, without copying them. Rather, each work develops 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 [...]
In the Open Studio we meet to create art together. Everyone who wants to develop their artistic skills is welcome here - children and adults, people with and without previous experience, newcomers and "old hands"! The focus is on the joy of creating. There is an opportunity to try your hand at various materials: The [...]
Soapstone is a soft stone that can be easily worked with rasps and files to create small sculptures. It's a lot of fun. You need a little stamina, but in the end you have created a unique object. Management: Dipl. Art therapist Anke Keuter Age: Adults Dates: Wednesday, 12.2.2025, 12.3.2025, 23.4.2025, each 7 - [...]
The 15 so-called "Emsland camps" existed from 1933 to 1945. In total around 80,000 concentration camp prisoners and more than 100,000 prisoners of war were interned here and suffered the cruellest treatment. Hunger, deprivation, inhumane living conditions and forced labor shaped the daily lives of the prisoners. In the midst of terror and suffering, however, [...]
Last year, the Emsland Archaeology Museum made its premises available for the further training of specialists and teachers as part of the "Children's Research Foundation" project. In 2025, the training program will enter another round: the Emsland Archaeology Museum will continue to make its training rooms available for the project on the dates listed below. [...]
This unmistakable magic, when exactly the right minds come together and everything harmonizes in a wonderful way, remains the most valuable characteristic of timeless music. Such processes are usually inexplicable, as is the case with Morley. One thing is certain: The organic lightness with which her polyphonic harmony singing floats through the atmosphere is extraordinary. [...]
In the Open Studio we meet to create art together. Everyone who wants to develop their artistic skills is welcome here - children and adults, people with and without previous experience, newcomers and "old hands"! The focus is on the joy of creating. There is an opportunity to try your hand at various materials: The [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We will paint individual pieces of driftwood in different colors according to our mood. A decorative wooden wreath is then formed and glued onto an MDF ring. The result brings a vacation feeling into your home. I'm looking forward to a nice, creative evening with you. Head: Kerstin Albers Age: young people from 16 and [...]
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 [...]
The "Song of the Moor Soldiers" in the past and present It is not a new, but always irritating observation that German fascism promoted the emergence of an impressive song culture directed against it. Or to put it another way: If the persecutions, the terror, the crimes of the Nazis had not existed, this part [...]