Including input from member polls, the AUA Historian and the History Committee discuss and determine topics for upcoming History exhibits. Once a topic has been chosen, the Historian invites a specialist in that area to curate the exhibit, with writing assistance from colleagues and interested History Committee members.
We meet (via Zoom) to brainstorm and outline. The AUA Design Team creates a “mood board” for discussion. Here is one page of that board showing suggested colors and designs. The team for this exhibit chose to include large tables (bottom right) of artifacts for attendees to see and explore.
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We like to showcase artifacts from the Didusch Center for Urologic History whenever possible. The 2025 exhibit allows us to include items used in teaching urology from our holdings. We organized the artifacts on tables in the Resource Room and asked visiting urologists for their thoughts.
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AUA Historian Dr. John Phillips requested that we create a Uroscopy Roulette Wheel (it’s Vegas, baby!), so designer Hannah Konetzki got to work with spray paint and medieval images. Make sure to visit the exhibit, Booth #1845 to spin the wheeeel and win a prize!
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Exhibit Curator Dr. Bob Flanigan requested that we create an exhibit book to accompany the exhibit; this book will be available to attendees at the History Exhibit, while supplies last. With AUA staff, Drs. Flanigan, Rabinowitz and Phillips read every word of the exhibit panels and book several times to wordsmith and check for errors.
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AUA digital designer Zachary Post began building exhibit webpages for the Didusch Museum’s website (past annual meeting exhibits); this page is one of his favorites.
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Richard Thompson, AUA’s Facilities & Building Operations Technician, figured out how to hook up old incandescent cystoscopes to use with the Museum’s bladder phantoms, giving us more hands-on opportunities. Rich was so inspired that he created a modern Where’s Waldo? bladder phantom (using a thrift store bottle) that we incorporated into the exhibit.
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As with most AUA projects, building an exhibit requires extensive collaboration between urologists and staff, and we aspire to make it a memorable and rewarding experience for contributors and annual meeting attendees!