The Gopher Hole Museum, most commonly known as the Torrington Gopher Hole Museum, is a small yet very interesting museum that features stuffed Richardson’s ground squirrels, and it is located in the settlement of Torrington, in the southern part of the Province of Alberta, within Canada.The museum was opened in 1996, where due to the vicinity of city of Calgary, throughout the year it receives an interesting amount of visitors, and as the squirrels are called gophers, they actually represent the townspeople. Being dressed and then placed in front of an elaborately painted backdrops, the exhibition features gophers that are dressed as priest, bank robber, duck hunter, firefighter, beautician etc.
