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Loyal followers of Taylor Swift are generating a remarkable rise in attendance at a Germany-based art institution that exhibits a painting of Shakespeare's character Ophelia, recently featured in a tune and music video from Swift's new release "The Life of a Showgirl".

The museum in Wiesbaden in the central Germany's city of Wiesbaden received numerous extra visitors than typical over the weekend, as fans wished to view the real depiction of the painting that starts the visual for "the recent track".

In the music video, which has been viewed exceeding 65 thousand times on the video platform, the image springs to life, with the artist at its center.

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

The official mentioned that one family had journeyed from the north German urban center of this major city, a lengthy drive away, while a portion of the visitors were international visitors from a nearby U.S. base.

The spokesperson clarified that followers learned the historical portrait - thought to be created to the year 1900 - was there when the institution staff, observing the likeness, put an invitation on their website welcoming any the singer's followers to participate in a dedicated museum walk.

The information then went viral online, the gallery said.

Online updates explaining the portrait's location received numerous of likes, far higher than the limited number of likes that most of its posts typically obtain.

In Hamlet, the character Ophelia, his love interest, a young lady from Denmark, becomes insane and drowns.

While more obscure than the famous portrait of Ophelia, the portrait also portrays a female figure in a long dress shown submerged in a body of water, surrounded by flowers.

The picture is invoked on Taylor Swift's record artwork, which shows her incompletely submerged in water.

"We are astonished and thrilled that Taylor Swift used this portrait from the gallery as motivation for her visual," an institutional leader stated.

"This presents, of course, a wonderful opportunity to draw individuals to the museum who don't know us so far."

"The Life of a Showgirl" secured the United Kingdom's greatest first week of the current year, after distributing 304,000 units in the opening one week.

In the America, it earned more than 4 million comparable album units in the U.S. in its opening week, according to Billboard, surpassing the achievement established by the British singer with her album "25" in the past.

The release is Swift's 3rd album to top the UK rankings in the current year, subsequent to "her previous release" in early this year and "another Swift album", when it came back to the top spot in recently.

It is furthermore the debut original album the singer has put out since she announced her upcoming wedding to NFL star the sports figure in recently and revealed in May that she had regained ownership over her earlier recordings.