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Devoted admirers of the pop sensation are creating a noticeable rise in attendance at a European gallery that houses a painting of Shakespeare's heroine Ophelia, newly featured in a track and music video from Swift's new release "The recent musical project".

The Hessische Landesmuseum in the heartland Germany's town of Wiesbaden received hundreds more visitors than normal over the past weekend, as fans wished to see the original version of the artwork that starts the video for "The Fate of Ophelia".

In the music video, which has been streamed over 65 million instances on the video platform, the image springs to life, with the artist at its center.

"We're really enjoying this interest - it's a lot of fun," a museum spokesperson commented.

The representative shared that one group had traveled from the upper German location of the northern hub, a five-hour journey away, while some of the guests were U.S. citizens from a local U.S. base.

The spokesperson explained that followers realized the artist's portrait - estimated to date to the turn of the century - was there when the gallery employees, recognizing the resemblance, published an notice on their online platform encouraging any the singer's followers to attend a unique museum walk.

The story then became popular on the internet, the museum said.

Social media content sharing the painting's presence received many thousands of engagements, far higher than the approximately one hundred of likes that many of its updates tend to get.

In Hamlet, the character Ophelia, his beloved, a youthful lady from the Scandinavian country, becomes insane and drowns.

While less well-known than the renowned artwork of the same character, the artwork also depicts a lady in a flowing gown lying submerged in a body of water, encircled by flowers.

The image is referenced on Taylor Swift's release packaging, which shows her somewhat immersed in water.

"We are astonished and delighted that Taylor Swift incorporated this painting from the museum as motivation for her music video," an institutional leader expressed.

"It represents, of course, a wonderful possibility to bring in individuals to the museum who are unfamiliar with us so far."

"The Life of a Showgirl" secured the Britain's greatest debut week of the current year, after distributing 304,000 copies in the initial one week.

In the America, it achieved exceeding 4 countless corresponding music units in the America in its first week, according to industry reports, beating the achievement held by the British singer with her release "25" in that year.

The release is the artist's another album to lead the British music chart in the current year, following "an earlier album" in the winter month and "The Tortured Poets Department", when it came back to the top spot in recently.

It is additionally the initial original album Swift has issued since she announced her planned marriage to football player her partner in recently and revealed in May that she had regained rights over her earlier recordings.