The article under consideration entitled «The Guardian view on museum culture:

take your time» was published in the Guardian by Editorial.

The main idea of the article is summed up in the depreciation of the cultural world
in modern realities.
The author draws a century-old parallel of the perception of art. And as an
example, he talks about different situations of visiting one of the world famous
museums - the Louvre.
It’s a well-known fact that first of all, all tourists want to visit all the outstanding
monuments of the city they came to, museums are no exception.
But now they can spend only a minute in front of a masterpiece of art - 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. And it happens because of that we have democratized tourism and
gallery-going so much that we have made it effectively impossible to appreciate
what we’ve travelled to see. Leisure, thus conceived, is hard labour, and returning
to work becomes a well-earned break from the ordeal.
But people who lived in the last century treated art in a completely different way.
For example, philosopher Richard Wollheim. He said that When he visited the
Louvre he could spent as much as four hours sitting before a painting. The first
hour, he claimed, was necessary for misperceptions to be eliminated. It was only
then that the picture would begin to disclose itself.
Another lover of the Louvre was Marcel Proust. He said that only through art we
can escape from ourselves and know how another person sees a universe which is
not the same as our own.
Even any exhibition or installation on an important social or world problem might
seem nothing more than an entertainment, overrun as it is with toddlers romping in
fog rooms and spray mist installations as their parents tut-tut over anyone who
dares interpose themselves between their offspring and their snapping phones.
Personally, I love art in all its manifestations. And if possible, I want to visit
exhibitions more and learn something new for myself. I think that most people who
come to the museum are also not indifferent to it. But maybe they are limited by
some rules. Like, it's about time. And all that remains for them is to take a photo of
this or that object or a selfie with it and move on so as not to delay others. But as
for parents with small children under 10, I think they should still find a nanny or
ask someone to sit with their child and go to the exhibition without them. It’s not
that it’s forbidden, it’s just that they should think about others as well. But it turns
out that a person may be trying to immerse himself in the atmosphere of the
exhibit, understand the idea or see something of his own, and a child rushes in
front of him and his attention is scattered and he already has completely different
feelings.