When you look at older (as in several decades) museum collections, most tarantulas in there are classified as Avicularia something. Tarantula taxonomy is slow business...
It may not even be one of the above genera, as it's certainly not Avicularia purpurea. (If it were using an obsolete name, that would be different, but Avicularia purpurea is still Avicularia purpurea.)
Tarantula identification isn't my strong suit, and the picture is dark, but it has a terrestrial build. If I had to guess, maybe a male Theraphosa or Lasiodora, which are commonly called "bird eaters." (Avicularia means "little bird" after an observation of a tarantula feeding on a bird.)
based on your note (...and has kickin hairs) and the additional pictures, which show us the apical region of the embolus, we should looking for a Theraphosinae with a broad embolus.
such kind of embolus tip we have in the following genera:
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