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Devoted followers of the music superstar are sparking a noticeable rise in visitor numbers at a Germany-based museum that houses a portrait of Shakespeare's heroine Ophelia, freshly reimagined in a track and video clip from Swift's recent release "The Life of a Showgirl".

The museum in Wiesbaden in the heartland German city of the German city welcomed dozens more visitors than typical over the recent days, as fans hoped to view the real depiction of the artwork that begins the video for "The Fate of Ophelia".

In the video, which has been viewed over 65 countless instances on the video platform, the painting transforms, with the artist at its center.

"We truly appreciate this interest - it's a lot of fun," a gallery official stated.

The spokesperson noted that one household had come from the northern location of the northern hub, a lengthy trip away, while a portion of the guests were international visitors from a local army base.

The official stated that followers realized the artist's portrait - estimated to originate to the turn of the century - was there when the museum team, noticing the resemblance, put an invitation on their digital site welcoming any the singer's followers to join a special tour.

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

Online content explaining the portrait's presence garnered thousands of likes, significantly more than the hundred or so of likes that most of its posts tend to get.

In Hamlet, Ophelia, his wife, a youthful aristocrat from the Scandinavian country, suffers a breakdown and drowns.

While less well-known than the renowned painting of Ophelia, the artwork also shows a woman in a long dress lying drowned in water, framed by blossoms.

The picture is echoed on Swift's record artwork, which depicts her incompletely immersed in a aquatic setting.

"We are astonished and thrilled that this musician employed this artwork from the institution as motivation for her visual," a museum director expressed.

"This is, of course, a great chance to bring in visitors to the museum who haven't discovered us so far."

"Swift's new album" achieved the UK's biggest debut week of this year, after moving 304,000 albums in the initial seven days.

In the United States, it generated over 4 million equivalent record units in the America in its debut week, according to industry reports, exceeding the milestone held by Adele with her record "25" in that year.

The album is Swift's third record to lead the UK album chart in the current year, after "an earlier album" in early this year and "a prior project", when it reappeared to the top spot in April.

It is also the initial full-length project the singer has released since she announced her engagement to athlete her partner in recently and disclosed in the spring that she had regained ownership over her earlier recordings.