The Guardian view on museum culture: take your time | Editorial

The crowds being hurried through galleries too often miss out on the experience they came for – but opportunities remainWhat is the place of art in a culture of inattention? Recent visitors to the Louvre report that tourists can now spend only a minute in front of the Mona Lisa before being asked to move on. Much of that time, for some of them, is spent taking photographs not even of the painting but of themselves with the painting in the background.One view is that we have democratised to