Inside the mind of the museum-goer

Why do some people spend all day in a gallery while others dash around in an hour? Welcome to the latest obsession of the world’s biggest museums “Each of us has our own singularity,” says Schaeffer, “owing as much to the accidents of personal history as to the weather on a particular day. We have a sort of hedonistic computer in our brains, gauging pleasure against pain, constantly appraising actions. But it does not calculate what we see, rather our own inner state.&rdq