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 [...]
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. [...]
Lecture with Christina Peek, researcher in the textile archaeology department of the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research There were and are three "hotspots" in Emsland district archaeology, namely settlement relics in Geeste, Walchum and Haren. In recent years, excavations have been carried out there during the expansion of building areas. The results in [...]
Artist Kendall Lujan from Portland, Oregon, combines strong vocals with a folk/jazz flair. Her distinctive voice combines inspiration from old jazz and old country with her own unique interpretation of expression. She prefers to write when she's sad, but as she says, "sometimes people just want to be sad - it's actually enjoyable at times [...]
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 course is aimed at beginners, the curious and anyone who would like to familiarize themselves with clay as a material. The highlight of the course is the final firing of the potted work in a raku kiln. Under guidance, candlesticks/light objects will be created, the surface of which will be fired using the raku [...]
The Koppelschleuse art school has always been committed to promoting creativity, innovation and artistic expression. The "Art - Traces - Search" program not only encouraged participants to view and explore art, but also inspired them to discover and leave their own artistic traces. The art school is not only a place of learning, but also [...]
Spring is finally here again! And with it begins our colorful Easter holiday workshop. Together we want to catch a bunny or two. We'll spend three mornings together with lots of fun and great ideas. Will you be there? Leader: Beate Vehring, Silke Altmeppen Location: Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse, Remise Age: 1st - 6th school year Time: [...]
What do you think of at Easter? Bunnies, colorful eggs, spring flowers and finally color in nature again. We want to make beautiful Easter decorations with lots of imagination and colorful materials. Come and join in! Leader: Monika Lübbers-Hillers, Birgitt Wocken Location: Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse, Remise Age: four-year-olds to school age Time: 14.30 - 16.30 Fee: [...]
The "art" of baking bread is almost as old as mankind itself. Crispy bread from a clay oven has been known since the Neolithic Age. We want to recreate such a domed oven at the museum in Originagröße. Baking ovens like this are currently very popular as "pizza ovens", but modern building materials are not [...]
The German painter, graphic artist and sculptor Otto Pankok (1893-1966) was an important representative of 20th century expressive realism. His sympathy for minorities and the persecuted, which he championed in his main work, the "Passion" cycle created in 1933/34, and his clear criticism of National Socialist tyranny, brought him into conflict with those in power [...]
On the last day of the "Art in Emsland" exhibition, the Meppen City Museum invites you to the final opening with free admission. There will be free special public tours at 2 pm and 4 pm (meeting point at the museum entrance). A creative station is set up for families and children, where they can [...]
We are looking forward to Easter and spring! We want to capture spring and its rays of sunshine. Using materials such as papier-mâché, paints, paper and much more, we will create lots of works of art. Are you up for it? Leader: Maria Hasekamp-Bäumker Location: Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse, Remise Age: 1st - 4th grade Time: 9.30 [...]
Spring is knocking on the door and the Easter bunny wants to get creative with you in his workshop. Using papier-mâché, brushes, paint and lots of other materials, we want to make Easter and springtime works of art! Do you have any ideas? Then let's get started! Leader: Maria Hasekamp-Bäumker Location: Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse, Remise Age: [...]
Meike Koester is back! With "Wieder Laut", the singer-songwriter presents her fifth studio album, which has since been nominated for the "German Record Critics' Award". Meike Koester's personal and poetic lyrics are one of the things that make the musician stand out. The other is her music, her Americana German pop, which immediately catches the [...]
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 [...]
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 this two-day course, participants will learn about landscape painting "en plein air" in oil under the guidance of Frankfurt-based illustrator and author Yo Rühmer. "En plein air" is French and means "in the open air". In open-air painting, the natural colors of the landscape and the natural light and shadow conditions flow into the [...]
In this course, you will learn to capture little memories with little effort, but with pen and paint. With urban sketching, you can create great sketches of city views, parks or even people in just a few minutes, which you can then color in. After a short introduction to the basics of composition and color, [...]