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 [...]

From the village to the city. The territorial reform of 1974 in the Meppen area

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

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 [...]

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 [...]

Open studio

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 [...]

Plastic design – modeling after a model

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse, Remise Meppen

This weekend offers the opportunity to work on the model under the supervision of the lecturer. It is very important to deal with the proportions of the human body, especially if you want to work in the figurative field. First we determine the position of the model together and then start the modeling work. An [...]

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 [...]

Further training: Join in! Education for sustainable development

Emsland Archäologie Museum

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. The training program will enter another round in 2024: The Emsland Archaeology Museum will continue to make its training rooms available for the project on the dates listed below. [...]

Vacation offers for children and young people “From village to city”

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

During the Easter vacations, the Meppen Town Museum is offering three days of learning and adventure activities for children and young people aged 10 to 14 on the theme of the special exhibition "From village to town". After an educational exploration of the exhibition, the play and learning stations are tried out together, an exciting [...]

3€

Vacation action for children

Emsland Archäologie Museum

The many bowls and pots in the museum are not vases! No, it's crockery, the porcelain of the Stone Age, so to speak. Before we get to work, we take a look together at the Museum the many different shapes and especially the great patterns on bowls and mugs. And then it's up to you! [...]

10€

Art in the evening – art school for adults: Small sculptures made of soapstone

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse, Remise Meppen

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? [...]

Hanna Meyerholz

Café Koppelschleuse An d. Koppelschleuse 20, Meppen

You simply enjoy listening to this voice as it tells quiet stories accompanied by reduced guitar sounds - of the desire for closeness and distance at the same time, the charming look back, a bandit under the bed, of losing and finding again, of in vino veritas or of learning to swim... Hanna Meyerholz tells [...]

12€

Treasure hunters among themselves

Emsland Archäologie Museum

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, [...]

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