Torrington Gopher Hole Museum, Taxidermy museum in Torrington, Canada.

The Torrington Gopher Hole Museum displays 77 mounted Richardson ground squirrels arranged within 44 detailed dioramas. Each scene brings a different aspect of local life to view, with the animals positioned in human situations and environments.

After Torrington's railway lines were decommissioned and its grain elevators closed, the village applied for a one-time $9,000 grant from the Government of Alberta to create a tourist attraction. At the third brainstorming meeting, a woman joked about stuffing the area's overabundant ground squirrels and putting them on display. The museum opened in 1996, drew over 10,000 visitors that year, and closed on September 26, 2026, when its aging building could no longer support the air conditioning needed for the taxidermy.

The name comes from the Richardson's ground squirrels that locals call gophers. Area farmers, hunters and veterinarians supplied the specimens, and five local people learned taxidermy to mount them. Volunteers made the miniature props and clothing and devised the exhibit ideas, which include hunters, firefighters, cosmetologists, priests, bank robbers, RCMP officers, pool players and First Nations people.

The museum closed on September 26, 2026, when the aging building could no longer support the air conditioning needed to keep the taxidermy in good condition. Before that it opened mainly in summer, with visits by request depending on volunteers. It sat in Torrington, Alberta, and entry in its final years was by donation.

The museum's west exterior wall carries a mural by Wayne Schneider, a local artist listed in the National Gallery of Canada who was an artistic director on the Canadian comedy series SCTV. The building itself joins a one-room rural schoolhouse and a former grain elevator office, covered in shiplap to look like one structure.