Historic World Frisbee Championships objects and action photograph from the museum collection

National Disc Golf Museum · Clearwater, Florida

Where Flying Disc history comes alive.

Explore the people, inventions, competitions, art, and communities that shaped disc golf and the wider world of Flying Disc sport.

Used red Pluto Platter from the museum collection
From the collection: a used red Pluto Platter.

Design transformed the way the world played.

Connect landmark objects with the inventors, athletes, artists, and communities that carried Flying Disc culture forward.

Open in Clearwater

More history is coming into view.

The museum welcomes visitors across more than 1,000 square feet of displays while an exciting renovation expands historical timelines, refreshes installations, and brings deeper interpretation to the collection.

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A remarkable collection

More than 1,200 historical items preserve the origins, growth, and global culture of Flying Disc sports.

1,000+

Square feet of displays

A physical museum filled with objects, stories, records, art, and championship history.

1,200+

Historical items

A growing collection supported by research, documentation, and preservation.

Landmark artifacts

Frisbie pie tins, the Flyin’ Saucer, the Pluto Platter, and Ken Climo’s first disc golf bag.

Explore the stories behind the collection

Begin with an object, a person, a breakthrough, or a defining moment in Flying Disc history.

Red Pluto Platter from the museum collection

A landmark design takes flight

The Pluto Platter helped transform the modern Flying Disc.

Flying Disc inventor Fred Morrison

Fred Morrison and the modern disc

Follow an inventor’s path from flying saucers to a global pastime.

Ed Headrick Flying Disc patent drawing

The engineering behind flight

Patents and profiles reveal how designers changed what a disc could do.

1976 competition disc associated with John Kirkland

John Kirkland goes the distance

A signed disc preserves a milestone in athletic achievement.

Jo Cahow and 1974 World Frisbee Championships objects

Jo Cahow and the 1974 WFC

Objects and reporting reconnect an athlete with a defining event.

Historic athlete from Flying Disc competition history

The people who changed the game

Meet champions, organizers, innovators, and ambassadors.

Buck Rogers cardboard flying saucer from the museum collection

Before the Frisbee took flight

Imagined flying saucers helped prepare the culture for a new toy.

Historic Flying Disc publication and competition imagery

Read history in the original

Explore historic publications in the museum’s Mirador reader.