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My mission — an anthropology field study to examine whether teenagers can be prised from their phones for more than five minutes at a time, if shoved in front of art. Could it work? Or are they permanently welded to their handsets?

Many of us will have seen that photo of the group of teens hunched over their phones, as Rembrandt’s Night Watch hangs behind them in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, abjectly ignored. (http://bit.ly/1tcoppj). Is it a tiny bit unrealistic to expect a bunch of 21st century teens to engage with a 1642 painting of men in silly hats waving swords? Or are contemporary teenagers a bunch of digital philistines?