The mistake most people make in a museum is treating it like an airport — a route through every gate. The better visit is the opposite: a small selection, chosen in advance, and time spent standing still. Three rooms, ten works, ninety minutes. That is a visit you will remember; the tour of everything is the one you forget.
Before you walk in, pick the works you came to see — the two or three famous ones and one or two you have never heard of. Then spend the rest of your time in the unplanned pauses: the painting that catches you sideways, the object the room is ignoring. Museum fatigue is real, and it sets in around the two-hour mark; ninety minutes keeps you in front of the art instead of in front of the exit.
The method ends with a rule: take home one thing. One work you will look up later, one idea from the wall text, one detail you would not have seen without stopping. A museum visit is a conversation, not a checklist — and ninety minutes is enough time for a good one.