An audioguide is a audio recording prepared to "guide" viewers through a museum exhibition by providing background, context, and information on the works included (Fisher 2004, p.49). Methods and media for sound recording are varied and have undergone significant changes between the first time sound was actually recorded for later playback until now. ... The term guide refers to an agency for directing or showing the way, specifically a person who leads or directs a stranger over unknown or unmapped country, or conducts travellers and tourists through a town, or over buildings of interest. ... The National Gallery in London, a famous museum. ... Art exhibitions are traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience, a temporary presentation of art. ...

Source

• Fisher, Jennifer (2004). "Speeches of Display: Museum Audioguides by Artists" in Drobnick, Jim Aural Cultures. ISBN 0920397808.