1. There are not many educated, passionate and informed museum guides available with many museums, for whatever reasons.
    
2. Doing away with a guide altogether results in a less than optimal solution. 

1. The visitor gets all the benefits of a guide without really paying for one.
    
2. The Museum also utilizes the electronic guide,can give a very good experience to the visitor, but without paying for a physical person.
    
3. The Museum can assess which artefacts elicit the most interest, decide on placement of individual objects so that the visitors interest.

There is not one, but many RFID solutions to the problem. The first is to equip each visitor with a handheld device, which is really an RFID reader. The device can have a set of headphones connected to it. The main device can be kept in the pocket and headphones can be worn as usual. Each item bears an RFID tag.

With declining number of guides in museums, especially publicly owned or government owned, and lower manpower budgets, the RFID based system is sure to catch on. Also the sam esystem need not be used only in museums, it may also be used in less intellectually stimulating locations like furniture shops, open layout stores, etc.