# Museums & Attractions
Vernissage exhibition "Dagegenhalten! The topicality of Bö's caricatures"
17.04.2026 19:00
Museum Heiden, Kirchplatz 5, 9410 Heiden
Admission is free of charge
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The Museum Heiden welcomes you to the opening of the new special exhibition "Dagegenhalten! Carl Böckli's caricatures against totalitarianism ... and what they have to say today"
Carl Böckli (1889-1970), better known as Bö, was a cartoonist and member of the editorial staff of the satirical magazine Nebelspalter in Rorschach from the 1920s to the 1960s. Bö, who lived in Heiden, observed his surroundings with verve and acumen and commented on events in Switzerland and the world in his caricatures. And: from the 1920s onwards, he was an alert and sharp critic of both right-wing and left-wing ideologies. His drawings made him one of Switzerland's best-known critics of Hitler's Germany and Soviet Stalinism, caught between civil courage and intellectual national defense.
Just like a hundred years ago, uncompromising attitudes and brazen propaganda are on the rise around the world today, driven above all by new media channels. The new special exhibition at Museum Heiden uses original cartoons from the collection to explore what Bös' political cartoons can say today: Stand up to it!
Introduction by David Aragai
Admission is free of charge.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Carl Böckli (1889-1970), better known as Bö, was a cartoonist and member of the editorial staff of the satirical magazine Nebelspalter in Rorschach from the 1920s to the 1960s. Bö, who lived in Heiden, observed his surroundings with verve and acumen and commented on events in Switzerland and the world in his caricatures. And: from the 1920s onwards, he was an alert and sharp critic of both right-wing and left-wing ideologies. His drawings made him one of Switzerland's best-known critics of Hitler's Germany and Soviet Stalinism, caught between civil courage and intellectual national defense.
Just like a hundred years ago, uncompromising attitudes and brazen propaganda are on the rise around the world today, driven above all by new media channels. The new special exhibition at Museum Heiden uses original cartoons from the collection to explore what Bös' political cartoons can say today: Stand up to it!
Introduction by David Aragai
Admission is free of charge.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Contact
Museum Heiden
Kirchplatz 5
9410 Heiden