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Loyal supporters of the music superstar are creating a noticeable rise in attendance at a German museum that exhibits a painting of Shakespeare's character Ophelia, recently featured in a track and visual production from Swift's latest record "The Life of a Showgirl".

The museum in Wiesbaden in the mid-region Germany's city of this location welcomed dozens more patrons than usual over the past weekend, as enthusiasts aimed to see the actual depiction of the artwork that starts the video for "Swift's new song".

In the visual piece, which has been streamed over 65 thousand instances on YouTube, the painting transforms, with Taylor Swift at its core.

"We're really enjoying this interest - it's very enjoyable," a gallery official commented.

The representative noted that one household had traveled from the north German location of the northern hub, a five-hour trip from there, while some of the attendees were international visitors from a adjacent army base.

The spokesperson stated that Swifties realized the historical portrait - believed to be created to the year 1900 - was present when the gallery employees, observing the resemblance, published an invitation on their website encouraging any the singer's followers to participate in a dedicated tour.

The news then went viral on the internet, the gallery reported.

Social media content explaining the artwork's presence garnered numerous of likes, significantly more than the hundred or so of reactions that many of its updates tend to get.

In the classic play, Ophelia, his love interest, a youthful aristocrat from Denmark, suffers a breakdown and dies in water.

While not as famous than John Everett Millais's portrait of this figure, the depiction also depicts a lady in a elegant garment lying submerged in water, encircled by flowers.

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

"We are surprised and delighted that the artist used this painting from the institution as motivation for her music video," a gallery head commented.

"It represents, of course, a wonderful chance to draw visitors to the museum who haven't discovered us previously."

"Swift's new album" earned the Britain's biggest debut week of this year, after distributing 304,000 units in the first seven days.

In the United States, it generated over 4 million corresponding record units in the United States in its debut week, according to Billboard, exceeding the achievement held by the British singer with her release "25" in that year.

The record is the artist's 3rd record to lead the UK album chart in 2025, following "Lover (Live From Paris)" in February and "another Swift album", when it returned to the top spot in recently.

It is furthermore the first original album Swift has put out since she announced her planned marriage to football player her partner in August and shared in earlier that she had retrieved ownership over her earlier recordings.