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Devoted admirers of the music superstar are sparking a remarkable rise in attendance at a Germany-based museum that houses a artwork of the Shakespearean figure Ophelia, recently referenced in a track and visual production from Swift's new album "Her newest album".

The museum in Wiesbaden in the central Germany's urban center of this location saw numerous extra visitors than normal over the weekend, as enthusiasts wished to see the actual rendition of the painting that begins the music video for "The Fate of Ophelia".

In the music video, which has been streamed more than 65 thousand instances on online, the image comes alive, with Swift at its center.

"We are delighted by this interest - it's quite exciting," a museum spokesperson stated.

The spokesperson shared that one family had journeyed from the upper German city of Hamburg, a five-hour drive from there, while a portion of the visitors were Americans from a adjacent military installation.

The representative explained that followers realized the artist's artwork - estimated to date to 1900 - was present when the institution staff, noticing the resemblance, published an invitation on their online platform welcoming any Taylor Swift enthusiasts to attend a dedicated museum walk.

The information then spread rapidly across social media, the institution said.

Digital content describing the portrait's whereabouts received thousands of positive reactions, far higher than the hundred or so of engagements that many of its updates typically obtain.

In the classic play, this female figure, his beloved, a youthful noblewoman from the Scandinavian country, becomes insane and drowns.

While not as famous than the renowned portrait of Ophelia, the depiction also shows a woman in a flowing gown lying floating in a body of water, encircled by blossoms.

The image is referenced on Taylor Swift's album cover, which features her incompletely underwater in liquid.

"We are astonished and pleased that the artist incorporated this portrait from the museum as influence for her visual," a museum director stated.

"This presents, of course, a wonderful opportunity to bring in people to the museum who are unfamiliar with us yet."

"The recent release" earned the Britain's largest first week of the current year, after moving 304,000 albums in the initial one week.

In the America, it achieved more than 4 thousand equivalent record units in the United States in its opening week, according to Billboard, beating the achievement held by Adele with her album "25" in 2015.

The album is the artist's third album to top the British music chart in this year, after "Lover (Live From Paris)" in early this year and "a prior project", when it came back to number one in recently.

It is additionally the initial studio album Swift has issued since she announced her upcoming wedding to athlete her partner in recently and shared in May that she had reclaimed rights over her previous work.