Young drowned woman in blue dress lying in the water (darkbird (123RF))

Museum Wiesbaden has been slammed recently with hundreds of Swifties! Taylor Swift’s latest album, “The Life of a Showgirl” features the track “The Fate of Ophelia.”

Referencing William Shakespeare’s doomed character from “Hamlet,” Swift alludes to her fiancé, Travis Kelce, saving her from the “fate of Ophelia” with the lyrics, “And if you’d never come for me, I might’ve drowned in the melancholy.”

For those like me who forgot that part of high school English class, Ophelia goes mad and eventually drowns after falling out of a tree and into a brook. Whether her death is accidental or not is up to the interpretation of the reader.

In the opening of her music video for the song, Swift pays homage to Ophelia and the imagery is eerily similar to a painting by Friedrich Heyser on exhibit at Museum Wiesbaden.

The museum has gladly welcomed the extra visitors. Museum director Andreas Henning even got a chance to speak about going viral online and IRL. He also chatted with the BBC about the painting itself, which Henning said shows “the balance between life and death using fragile women.”

“This is, of course, a great opportunity to attract people to the museum who don’t know us yet,” Henning reported to German news agency DPA.

Further celebrating the new fame, the Museum is hosting an event on Nov. 2, 2025, “Taylor Swift’s ‘Ophelia’ in the Wiesbaden Museum.” Unfortunately, the event is already sold out; however, the painting is still on display and Swifties can go see it as well as the museum’s other wondrous exhibits during their regular hours.

You can order your entrance tickets to Museum Wiesbaden online and it is open Tuesday-Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended hours on Thursday until 9 p.m.