Overview
- Museum Wiesbaden reported hundreds more visitors than usual last weekend, with a noticeable rise in teen attendees, after the video's release.
- The video for The Fate of Ophelia opens with Swift posed like Ophelia among water lilies and has been viewed more than 68 million times.
- The referenced work is an over-100-year-old oil painting, Ophelia, by German artist Friedrich Heyser, housed in the central German state of Hessen.
- A special tour titled “Taylor Swift’s ‘Ophelia’ at the Wiesbaden museum” is set for Nov. 2, with free entry for visitors dressed as Swift or Ophelia.
- Museum spokesperson Susanne Hirschmann said staff are wondering whether Swift or someone on her team selected or visited the painting, with no confirmation offered.