Baltimore Heritage

Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death are not for the faint of heart. In the 1940s, Chicago heiress Frances Glessner Lee recreated crime scene models on a one-inch-to-one-foot scale. These now-historic macabre dioramas were built to be used as police training tools to help crime scene investigators learn the art and science of detailed forensics-based detection. Join us as Mr. Bruce Goldfarb shares the history of the Nutshells and how they found their way to Baltimore.