Experiencing Meppen’s history in the Arenbergian Rentei

ehemalige arenbergische Rentei Meppen, Deutschland

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 [...]

Experience Meppen’s history in the Arenberg manor house

ehemalige arenbergische Rentei Meppen, Deutschland

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 [...]

Urmel, primeval times, monsters: dinosaurs & co.

Emsland Archäologie Museum

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 [...]

3€ – 9€

Members’ exhibition of the Meppener Kunstkreis

Every two years, the Meppener Kunstkreis invites its members to an exhibition. After three years of refurbishing its domicile in line with the preservation order, the time has come again this year. As part of the exhibition, the artistic members present themselves to a broad public and thus give an impression of their artistic work. [...]

Sculptors – Summer academy “With hand and heart”

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse, Remise Meppen

You would like to creatively implement your own ideas and designs in stone? Would you like to try something new or deepen your existing knowledge? Then our sculpting course is just right for you! This year, Juri Platon is accompanying us as a lecturer at the Summer Academy. Look forward to working with the different [...]

Art School Breakfast at the Youth and Culture Guesthouse

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 [...]

Draw new strength

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse, Remise Meppen

"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 [...]

Edible wild plants and herbs: discover, identify and use them

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse, Remise Meppen

Would you like to know how to touch nettles without stinging yourself? How to make a natural toothbrush from a hazelnut bush? Or which herb is best for a cough tea? Then join us on a wild herb tour! After a short welcome at the Koppelschleuse art school, we will go on a herb walk [...]

Cyanotype Workshop: Photography without a camera!

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse, Remise Meppen

Create unique photographs with the iron blue printing process! On a short excursion into nature, we collect our picture material: plant parts, leaves and branches as well as sand, stones or silhouettes form our motifs and can be taken without a camera. The participants place their picture on the cyanotype paper as they wish. Here [...]

New research on the history of the Jewish cemetery in Meppen Lecture by Manfred Fickers (in cooperation with the Initiativkreis Stolpersteine Meppen)

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

The Jewish cemetery in the street "An der Hütte" is the oldest and only surviving evidence of Jewish life in Meppen. The first Jews settled in the town of Meppen around 1700. They acquired an elongated plot of land east of the town near the Hasen to bury their dead here according to Jewish rites. [...]

Open studio

In the Open Studio we meet to create art together. Everyone who wants to develop their artistic skills is welcome here - 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 therapy program for young people aged 16 and over and adults – “Traces of the soul”

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 [...]

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