The William P Didusch Center For Urologic History

The William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History of the American Urological Association (AUA) is located at the AUA headquarters in Linthicum, MD. The Didusch Center is named in honor of William P. Didusch, a world-renowned medical artist at the Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute, and the first curator of the AUA's museum. The museum was conceived by Didusch and opened in 1971. Didusch remained curator until his death in 1981, and was succeeded by Dr. Herbert Brendler. Dr. William W. Scott—who worked with Nobel Laureate Charles Huggins at the University of Chicago and later became director of the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital—assumed the position upon Brendler's death in 1986. Dr. Rainer Engel, also of Johns Hopkins, became curator in 1993 until Dr. Michael Moran took over in 2011. Today, the Didusch Center has a curatorial team, led by an annual Exhibits Curator

The Didusch Center encompasses a rich and varied collection of drawings, photographs and instruments of historical importance to urology, many displayed in our urological exhibits. The center also houses a library devoted to urological and early medical texts and the AUA archives.