museums in the city include the Museum of Photography (Museum f�r Photographie), the Jewish Museum (J�disches Museum), the Museum for Agricultural Technology Gut Steinhof, and the Gerst�cker-Museum. Frequent exhibitions of contemporary art are also held by the Art Society of Braunschweig (German: Kunstverein Braunschweig), housed in the Villa Salve Hospes, a classicist villa built between 1805 and 1808.
The Braunschweig Classix Festival was an annual classical music festival. It is the largest promoter of classical music in the region and one of the most prominent music festivals in Lower Saxony.
From 2001 to 2009 the annual finals of the international breakdance competition Battle of the Year were held at the Volkswagen Halle in Braunschweig.
Braunschweiger TSC is among the leading competitive formation dance teams in the world and has won multiple World and European championship titles.
Braunschweig's major local football (soccer) team is Eintracht Braunschweig. Founded in 1895, the club can look back on a long and chequered history. It won the German football championship in 1967. Despite playing the German 2nd division now (as of the 2012�2013 season), the club still attracts a large number of supporters. Braunschweig was also arguably the city in which the first ever game of football in Germany took place. The game had been brought to Germany by the local school teacher Konrad Koch, also the first to write down a German version of the rules of football, who organized the first match between pupils from his school Martino-Katharineum in 1874.
The New Yorker Lions (formerly Braunschweig Lions) are the city's American football team, winning a record number of seven German Bowl titles, as well as two Eurobowls.
The city's professional basketball team, the Phantoms Braunschweig, plays in the Basketball Bundesliga, the highest level in Germany.
Other sports in which Braunschweig has or had bundesliga or 2nd bundesliga
