Abstract
The Prague-based film museum NaFilM introduces an innovative approach to exhibiting film history through short-term exhibitions which is a response to the larger focus on education and experience in current museum presentation. The exhibition concept seeks to overcome ingrained limitations of the film images as well as of film artefact presentation in the museum space, an issue that is currently highly discussed among curators.
Hence, NaFilM presents film history topics through conceptually interconnected installations that engage visitors in active cognitive process offering impulses, situations to explore and novel experiences. We involve audiovisual archival materials in the structure of exhibition impulses - they are part of the whole interactive design that leads visitors to understand each of the topics along with its specific conditions and film practice along with the crucial elements of film language.
The paper will present effective solutions how to involve film excerpts in the educational concept of an exhibition and how to lead visitors to their own understanding of variable forms and manifestations of film medium throughout modern history.