CANTON, OH– People heading to Canton to visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame may want to make another stop.

Massillon has a football museum dedicated to one of the biggest icons in football history, who happens to have made his name for the orange and black as well.

Dave Lambrose couldn’t resist stopping by the Paul Brown Museum while doing business in Massillon.

“My father was a big Paul Brown fan. I think most guys who were his age, World War II guys who grew up in Cleveland and were Cleveland Browns fans were all Paul Brown Fans,” says Lambrose, a museum visitor.

“This is a bench football player would have sat on back in the 1930’s, and it’s just one of the many parts of a growing Paul Brown Museum.”

“When you enter the exhibit from the far doors over here, the first thing you’ll see will be the timeline to your left and also the big, beautiful research library that we’re going to be having,” Bailey Yoder said while showing Spectrum News around the museum. Yoder is the Curator of Football Heritage at the Massillon Museum.

Yoder says the museum dedicated to the local football icon is still in its early stages, only being a year old, but has big plans to bring to life the life and innovations of one of the Tiger’s most iconic figures.

“Because he was so important for the city of Massillon and football. It just seemed right to bring something back to the community for him,” says Yoder.

Yoder says it’s not just a museum for Brown, but a museum for football as a whole, equipped with old school jerseys, programs of the Massillon McKinley rivalry, and pictures.  A museum Yoder says is being celebrated by the city.

"The reaction has been overwhelming. Everyone coming through has been saying what a great museum it is, they’re so thankful it’s here. They love that they can come and they can see the history of football from this town because this town is a football town."

The Massillon Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 9:30 to 5 and Sundays from 2-5.