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In recent years, museums have experimented with new ways to attract audiences who may feel intimidated by traditional galleries. The Riverside Museum, a mid-sized institution known primarily for its nineteenth-century landscape collection, reported a banner year. According to its annual report, total visitor entries rose by nearly a fifth compared with the prior year, reversing a decade of gradual decline. Yet an operations memo circulated internally flagged a troubling pattern: the institution's network of occupancy sensors, which estimate how long visitors actually spend in the galleries, recorded a double-digit drop in cumulative gallery-minutes. Docent-led tours were shortened to accommodate smaller, more mobile groups, and the average visitor spent less time in front of individual works than in previous years. The development office celebrated the headline-grabbing surge in attendance as evidence that outreach was working, while curators fretted that engagement with art itself might be thinning. The two claims sit awkwardly together. On the one hand, the museum undeniably counted more bodies passing through its doors. On the other hand, the very metric meant to capture art-viewing time moved in the opposite direction. The museum had modestly refreshed its galleries and launched broader advertising, but nothing in its formal exhibition schedule accounted for the discrepancy. The chief financial officer noted that the admissions line often snaked into the entrance hall on weekend afternoons, while guards in the permanent collection rooms reported unusually quiet weekdays. Some staff wondered whether the sensor network was miscalibrated; others suspected that the marketing campaign drew newcomers who sampled but did not linger. Still others pointed to a growing trend of museums positioning themselves as community hubs rather than solely repositories of objects, with expanded programming beyond the galleries. Until the leadership could reconcile the seemingly contradictory facts, the institution could not know whether it was succeeding on the terms that had long defined its mission.
Which of the following, if true, most helps explain how both statements can be true?
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