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Loyal supporters of Taylor Swift are creating a noticeable surge in visitor numbers at a European museum that houses a artwork of the Shakespearean figure Ophelia, freshly reimagined in a song and video clip from Swift's latest record "The recent musical project".

The museum in Wiesbaden in the central German urban center of Wiesbaden saw dozens more patrons than typical over the past weekend, as fans hoped to observe the real version of the portrait that opens the video for "the recent track".

In the video, which has been watched exceeding 65 thousand times on the video platform, the painting transforms, with Swift at its core.

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

The official shared that one group had traveled from the northern urban center of Hamburg, a lengthy journey from there, while several of the attendees were Americans from a local army base.

The representative clarified that Swifties learned the historical artwork - believed to date to the year 1900 - was there when the gallery employees, recognizing the similarity, put an notice on their online platform inviting any Swift fans to join a dedicated museum walk.

The news then spread rapidly on the internet, the gallery confirmed.

Online updates explaining the artwork's location garnered many thousands of likes, far higher than the hundred or so of likes that most of its posts typically obtain.

In the classic play, the character Ophelia, his love interest, a adolescent noblewoman from Denmark, becomes insane and dies in water.

While not as famous than the famous painting of this figure, the portrait also portrays a woman in a elegant garment shown drowned in liquid, encircled by floral elements.

The visual is invoked on the singer's record artwork, which shows her somewhat underwater in water.

"We are surprised and pleased that Taylor Swift used this artwork from the institution as inspiration for her music video," a museum director stated.

"This presents, of course, a wonderful chance to bring in visitors to the museum who don't know us yet."

"Swift's new album" achieved the United Kingdom's biggest debut week of the current year, after distributing 304,000 albums in the first seven days.

In the America, it earned exceeding 4 million comparable record units in the United States in its opening week, according to Billboard, beating the achievement established by the British singer with her release "25" in 2015.

The release is Taylor Swift's third project to dominate the UK rankings in the current year, following "an earlier album" in February and "a prior project", when it reappeared to the top spot in April.

It is also the debut full-length project Swift has put out since she announced her engagement to football player the sports figure in August and shared in earlier that she had regained ownership over her previous work.