Panopticon

Panoptikum (Latinized form of the Greek pānoptikón , composed of Greek πᾶν pān , 'everything', and ὀπτικό optikó , 'belonging to seeing') stands for:

• a wax museum , e.g. B .:
  • Panoptikum Hamburg , wax museum in Hamburg
  • Castan's Panoptikum , former wax museum of the Castan brothers in Berlin and other cities
  • Panoptikum Mannheim , former wax museum in Mannheim
• a curio cabinet, see Wunderkammer
• Panopticon , a prison structure designed by Jeremy Bentham towards the end of the 18th century

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• Action theater Panoptikum in Freiburg im Breisgau
• Panoptikum (TV broadcast) , Austrian TV broadcast (1975–1996)

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• Panoptikum (Molnár) , play by Ferenc Molnár (1949)
• Panoptikum (Osterwald) , song by the Hazy Osterwald Sextet (1959), composed and produced by Kurt Feltz, text: Heinz Gietz

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Wiktionary: Panoptikum  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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