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  Location within Ireland | |
| Established | 1940s (Clonmel museum) 2000 (current building) 2018 (in current format with current name) |
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| Location | Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland |
| Coordinates | 52°21′20″N 7°41′55″W / 52.35547°N 7.698749°W / 52.35547; -7.698749 |
| Type | local history museum |
| Accreditation | Museum Standards Programme for Ireland |
| Collection size | 25,000 objects |
| Curator | Marie McMahon[1] |
| Owner | Tipperary County Council |
| Public transit access | Clonmel railway station Clonmel M&S Davis Road bus stop (route 717) |
| Nearest car park | on-site |
| Website | hiddenhistory |
The Tipperary Museum of Hidden History is a local history museuminClonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland.[2] It is designated as museum by the National Museum of Ireland and has full accreditation in the Museum Standards Programme for Ireland (MSPI).[3]
A museum for Clonmel was founded in the 1940s.[4] It opened on new premises on Mick Delahunty Square in 2000, and was renamed the South Tipperary County Museum soon after.[5] It was relaunched as the "Tipperary Museum of Hidden History" in October 2019 after a €500,000 upgrade.[6]
The museum was closed during the COVID-19 pandemic; it marked its reopening in 2021 with a CD of lost Mick Delahunty music from 1948.[7][8] In the same year, it received €15,000 in funding for the "Hidden Gems" exhibition.[9]
The museum holds items and documents from the history of Clonmel and County Tipperary.[10] Notable items include:
