Friday, January 3, 2003
In A Museum Comments
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Here's the mould of a musical bird long passed from light,
Which over the earth before man came was winging;
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Thomas Hardy
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7/30/2025 7:11:16 AM # 1.0.0
The museum referred to in 'In a museum' is the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, Devon. When Hardy visited the RAMM in 1914 he saw a plaster cast of the Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx lithographica on display. This was the bird that provided the inspiration for 'In a Museum'.