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Loyal admirers of Taylor Swift are generating a remarkable rise in attendance at a Germany-based museum that displays a portrait of the Shakespearean figure Ophelia, recently reimagined in a tune and video clip from Swift's recent album "The recent musical project".

The cultural institution in the central German city of Wiesbaden welcomed hundreds additional guests than usual over the weekend, as Swifties wished to observe the original depiction of the painting that opens the visual for "the recent track".

In the music video, which has been viewed more than 65 countless occasions on the video platform, the painting comes alive, with Taylor Swift at its heart.

"We truly appreciate this attention - it's a lot of fun," an institution representative stated.

The representative mentioned that one household had traveled from the north German city of this major city, a five-hour journey away, while several of the guests were Americans from a local army base.

The spokesperson clarified that Swifties discovered the artist's artwork - thought to originate to the year 1900 - was there when the institution staff, recognizing the resemblance, posted an invitation on their online platform encouraging any Swift fans to join a special guided visit.

The news then spread rapidly across social media, the gallery reported.

Social media content explaining the artwork's location received thousands of likes, significantly more than the hundred or so of reactions that the majority of its content typically obtain.

In Hamlet, the character Ophelia, his beloved, a adolescent aristocrat from Denmark, goes mad and submerges.

While not as famous than the famous portrait of this figure, the artwork also depicts a female figure in a flowing gown lying drowned in a body of water, framed by blossoms.

The image is referenced on Taylor Swift's record artwork, which features her somewhat submerged in liquid.

"We are astonished and pleased that the artist incorporated this painting from the museum as influence for her music video," an institutional leader stated.

"It represents, of course, a great opportunity to bring in people to the gallery who don't know us previously."

"The recent release" achieved the Britain's greatest opening week of this year, after moving 304,000 albums in the first the debut period.

In the US, it achieved more than 4 thousand comparable album units in the United States in its first week, according to the music chart, surpassing the milestone set by the British singer with her record "25" in 2015.

The release is Swift's third album to lead the UK rankings in the current year, after "an earlier album" in the winter month and "The Tortured Poets Department", when it reappeared to number one in recently.

It is furthermore the first original album Taylor Swift has put out since she declared her engagement to football player her partner in the summer month and revealed in the spring that she had reclaimed ownership over her back catalogue.