Links: Murder Is Her Hobby - Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death

The coronavirus is keeping museums across the country closed, but there are still some neat ways to visit these places virtually, like this online gallery of the “Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death”:



The Nutshell Studies were created in the 1940s by "the mother of forensic science," Frances Glessner Lee. Lee made intricate dioramas based on real crime scenes, in order to train police investigators to methodically analyze evidence. The attention to detail, macabre subject matter, and gender of the author (women in law enforcement were rare back then) made the Nutshells famous, so it's nice to be able to explore them via the World Wide Web.