Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum

Surprising small museum in Roscoe Village mixing local history with East Asian and Native American collections.

The Johnson-Humrickhouse is the kind of museum that justifies a detour off the main road. From the outside it looks like the small-town local-history collection it partly is — a Pomo basket here, a settler's musket there — but four of the galleries are filled with the kind of Japanese armour, Chinese ceramics, and Pacific Northwest carvings you would expect to find in a university museum. The collection was assembled by two Coshocton brothers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and stipulated to remain in the town.

It is well lit, well captioned, and rarely crowded. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays from January through March; entry is around $5.

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A story
Brothers John and David Johnson spent their lives travelling and acquiring — Native American artefacts on western expeditions, Japanese and Chinese porcelain and weapons from a posting in Asia, European decorative arts from their grandfather. They donated 15,000 pieces to Coshocton in 1931 on the single condition that everything stay together in their hometown.