Torrington

Yeah.

Uh, it's located in Torrington, a hamlet of about 120 kilometers north of Calgary.

It made the announcement, uh, online earlier this week.

Uh, Laurel Kurta, the museum director, said that she was forced to close the doors because, uh, the two historical buildings that, the, that house the exhibits need to be replaced.

Yeah, I feel like I've wasted my life.

I never got out there to Torrington either.

Yeah.

And you've been down that way a lot.

If it's just, like, the, the building's dilapidated.

Mm.

'Cause it's in Torrington, Alberta.

Yeah.

As they gaze into each other's eyes, you can feel the love, an expression of devotion that will never change because they are taxidermied gophers.

It's one of many scenes at the world-famous Gopher Hole Museum, a roadside attraction in Torrington, Alberta.

It's full of anthropomorphic rodents in carefully curated scenes, although the curtain may be falling on those scenes.

After a years-long battle to stay open, the museum was recently forced to close its doors, and that closure could be permanent unless they find a new place to set up shop.

But then there'll be those who didn't know it existed and wonder why it existed in the first place.

So why go first? Yeah.

Yeah, well, so I grew up in Torrington and it was vastly different than what it is now.

At that time, it had several stores, businesses, services, little shops.