Culture, leisure and sports

Culture makes strong

In our cultural education programs, you will learn, test, develop and expand core competencies such as creativity, flexibility, improvisational skills, problem-solving strategies and the ability to work in a team.

Personal and professional interests can be optimally combined. In the area of cultural media education, you will find offerings that teach you how to face the diverse challenges in the process of digitizing society.

In its openness to all citizens, cultural education creates access to culture and enables social participation; it promotes integration and inclusion.

Physical and mental well-being are crucial prerequisites for successfully coping with challenges at work and in your private life. Health literacy is essential if you want to take responsibility for strengthening your health.

In our educational programs, you as a citizen of Wolfsburg will learn and experience how you can develop a healthy yet enjoyable lifestyle, counteract stress, perceive your body positively and eat a balanced diet.

Acquire the ability to deal constructively with stress and successfully overcome crises. This strengthens your mental and physical resources, makes you fit for everyday life and work and promotes your long-term health.

Current research repeatedly points to the positive influence of emotionality, stress management, a balanced diet and exercise on the success of lifelong learning processes. The health education courses offered at Wolfsburg Adult Education Center take these findings into account.

Factual information and learning are linked with all the senses, learning is action-oriented, related to the group and taking into account their biographical points of reference.

The spectrum of the Wolfsburg Adult Education Center includes a wide range of health education courses, such as

• Exercise
• relaxation
• Cooking courses
• Individual nutritional advice
• Offers for expectant parents and young families
• Health care
• First aid
• Educational vacations
• Target group-specific health offers and company training courses
• as well as lecture evenings on various health-related topics

You would like to know what is happening in Wolfsburg and where in terms of sports? You would like to practice a certain sport and are looking for the right club?

Since 1962, we have been a reliable point of contact for the people of Wolfsburg when it comes to providing information and media in the world-famous Alvar Aalto House of Culture right in the city center.

In the Alvar Aalto Kulturhaus, we are represented by the Central Library, the Children's and Youth Library on the first floor and the Music Library on the upper floor (above the Aalto Bistro).

Together with 5 library branches in the Wolfsburg districts of Detmerode, Nordstadt (at Hansaplatz), Fallersleben, Vorsfelde and in Westhagen, 4 libraries in school centers and a mobile library, we span a dense library network across Wolfsburg.

"We are open to everyone" - during opening hours at the respective locations and also online with our online services, which are available to you around the clock.

The City of Wolfsburg's music school helps to discover, develop and individually promote musical skills. Whether for children, young people or adults - whether classical, jazz, rock or pop.

The City of Wolfsburg's music school offers individual, qualified lessons.

Located in Wolfsburg on the Klieversberg, it attracts not only architects from all over the world. The program covering all genres in the areas of opera, operetta, ballet, concert, play, musical, the newly created "Young Theater" for children and young people as well as specials is also a crowd puller in its selection.

Wolfsburg is a young and particularly dynamic city, and yet in many places in the city it breathes an exceedingly exciting history that often goes back centuries.

Accordingly, Wolfsburg offers a thematically broad spectrum of museums - whether art museum, car museum, Phaeno or city museum, there is something for every taste.

In addition to BadeLand Wolfsburg, there are two indoor pools, three outdoor pools, the WasserPark Hehlingen and the beautiful Allersee for all water rats.

A visit to the indoor pools is highly recommended, especially for families with smaller children.

A variety of courses are offered: Baby swimming, swimming lessons, water gymnastics, aqua jogging or aqua power.