Elizabeth Tashjian (December 24, 1912 – January 29, 2007) was an artist and the founder of the Nut Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut.

Later in life, she appeared on the shows of Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Howard Stern and Chevy Chase and the game show To Tell The Truth among others, to promote nuts and the Nut Museum.

[1] By the age of nine, Tashjian was a concert violinist living with her mother in New York City's Upper West Side.

Despite religious beliefs refusing medical treatment, she recovered, but was confined to a nursing home.

[2] The contents of the Nut Museum were removed by Christopher B. Steiner, a professor of Art History and Museum Studies at Connecticut College, after he successfully petitioned the Old Lyme Probate Court to recognize the historic and artistic significance of the collection.

[7] After her death, Steiner resumed work on a book, Performing the Nut Museum: Elizabeth Tashjian and the Art of the Double Entendre, which has yet to be published.