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Devoted followers of the pop sensation are sparking a remarkable increase in visitor numbers at a German museum that exhibits a portrait of the Shakespearean heroine Ophelia, newly referenced in a song and visual production from Swift's recent record "The Life of a Showgirl".

The museum in Wiesbaden in the heartland German town of the German city welcomed hundreds extra guests than typical over the weekend, as enthusiasts hoped to observe the real rendition of the artwork that opens the visual for "Swift's new song".

In the video, which has been viewed more than 65 million occasions on the video platform, the artwork comes alive, with Taylor Swift at its core.

"We are delighted by this attention - it's quite exciting," an institution representative commented.

The spokesperson mentioned that one family had traveled from the north German location of the northern hub, a extended journey distant, while a portion of the guests were U.S. citizens from a local army base.

The spokesperson stated that fans realized the historical painting - thought to originate to the year 1900 - was there when the museum team, recognizing the similarity, published an notice on their website inviting any the singer's followers to attend a unique guided visit.

The story then went viral online, the institution reported.

Social media content describing the artwork's location garnered many thousands of likes, far higher than the limited number of engagements that most of its posts tend to get.

In Hamlet, this female figure, his love interest, a young lady from this nation, goes mad and drowns.

While not as famous than John Everett Millais's portrait of Ophelia, the depiction also depicts a lady in a flowing gown shown floating in a body of water, surrounded by blossoms.

The image is invoked on the singer's record artwork, which depicts her partially submerged in a aquatic setting.

"We are amazed and thrilled that this musician used this artwork from the gallery as motivation for her video," an institutional leader expressed.

"This is, of course, a great possibility to bring in visitors to the museum who are unfamiliar with us previously."

"Swift's new album" secured the Britain's biggest opening week of this year, after distributing 304,000 units in the initial seven days.

In the United States, it earned more than 4 thousand equivalent album units in the United States in its first week, according to the music chart, exceeding the record established by this artist with her album "25" in 2015.

The album is the artist's another record to top the UK album chart in 2025, subsequent to "an earlier album" in the winter month and "The Tortured Poets Department", when it came back to first place in the spring month.

It is additionally the first full-length project Swift has put out since she revealed her engagement to athlete Travis Kelce in recently and revealed in the spring that she had retrieved rights over her back catalogue.