World Famous Gopher Hole Museum

12/25/2025

The World Famous Gopher Hole Museum and Torrington Tourism Action Society wish you and your families all the best things the world has to offer. We hope for you laughter, joy, silliness, and love.Hug your people and let them k iw they matter.

Thank you for all that you have shared with us. You fill our hearts and keep us going despite insurmountable odds. We really do have the best fans. 😘

12/19/2025

They are $25 each (custom everything costs $$ sigh. The pattern is also not stamped. Each thread is individually colored to the pattern...they are super good quality!!) and $20 for every additional pair purchased (ex...3 or...one at $25+2@$20=$65). Thanks everyone

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12/15/2025

Took some previously loved towels to Medicine River Wildlife Centre today. I was very glad to have a 4-wheel drive in all that deep, sticky snow! This is a wonderful place that fosters a love of animals, the environment, and its diversity. Put them on your list when they reopen in the spring...also please remember that if you have towels or sheets, they need not go to the garbage. Many animal shelters will put them to good use!

12/06/2025

We just got word that Santa answers Clem are hitting the streets in Wimborne! Next stop Torrington and the North Pole!! Enjoy the parade!! I just got gifted Steven Page tix...Santa is real!!

12/06/2025

Ho-Ho-Hold the Reindeer! 🚒🎅Santa AND Clem are trading the sleigh for a fire truck and bringing festive cheer to the communities of Wimborne and Torrington on Saturday, December 6, for the 5th Annual Candy Cane Run!

📅 This Saturday, Dec 6
⏰ Festivities Kick Off: 4 PM

12/02/2025

In 2012, an organization called GivingTuesday set out to sprinkle a little radical generosity into the world—a cheerful antidote to the whirlwind of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. What began in New York has since stretched its arms around the globe, reminding us that everyone has a little something to give.

If you—or that generous friend who always pays for coffee—feel inspired to help, the World Famous Gopher Hole Museum is on the lookout for a new home. Your support, in any amount, would mean the world to our tiny but mighty museum.

And if we’re not quite your cup of tea (or your preferred brand of gopher), we kindly encourage you to support another small, rural museum. Many are working hard just to keep the lights on, and every little bit truly helps.

At the World Famous Gopher Hole Museum, our mission is to preserve and share the stories of rural Alberta while providing an entertaining and educational experience for all visitors. We strive to promote curiosity, creativity, and a sense of humor, fostering a deeper appreciation for rural communiti...

11/29/2025

We enjoyed some beautiful lights in Kensington Wednesday after the screening of independant movie, Alberta Number One. It plays Saturday at The Metro Theatre in City of Edmonton.

Rest assured, World Famous Gopher Hole Museum has a strict no jerk policy. Those fellas in the movie not ours 😁

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11/25/2025

Hey friends, this is a reminder about the screening of Alberta Number One. Vancouver tonight , Calgary tomorrow Plaza Theatre and Saturday in Edmonton The Metro Theatre.

The dramedy is more than a road trip film. It is a love letter to Alberta and some of her museums and roadside attractions. I cant recall ALL the stops but they include Town of Drumheller (I think the trailer shows Fossil World (closed😪) Village of Big Valley Nanton Miniature Museum (closed😪) , Reynolds-Alberta Museum , Donalda & District Museum, Village of Donalda, UFO Landing Pad St. Paul, Nickle Galleries at University of Calgary Cave and Basin at Banff National Park.

Rumour has it, there may be some gopher goodies up for grabs!

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Coming to theatres Nov 2025Directed by Alexander CarsonStarring Bebe Buckskin, Benjamin Carson, Kris Demeanour

11/20/2025

Before going to BC this fall, a fellow that comes into my day job declared that I MUST go hike the Enderby Cliffs. I lived in the Okanagan. We have friends and family in the Okanagan so we are there regularily. I never knew Our Enderby had clliffs! This was my plan going in and consequently I searched other Enderby attractions. I found an art gallery and museum that, for very different reasons, blew our minds!! For the record, it was a quick trip and the cliffs were five hours...another time.

First off, the . What a delight!! This is an impressive warehouse of large scale art installations that challenge and delight the guests vision, ears, senses, and mind.The effort to plan and coordinate all the parts that become the whole of each exhibit is overwhelming. Audiophiles, this is your space!! Videos in the comments as they won't let me post together.

Highlights for me:
"Conversations with my Mother" was intimate, heartbreaking and funny. If you have aging parents, this will hit you right in the feels!!

"The Marionette Maker" (camper) is a fever dream. I want to live in this world!

""The Escape Room" miniatures...we do miniatures! I frantically searched for the man in the high-rise...before it was too late!!

"The Carnie"...its just my jam

"The Poetry Machine" plus a 'which way' book...need I say more?

"The 40 Part Motet" I laid on the ground for this one, closed my eyes...if heaven came as a sound, this is it

"Tge Storm Room" had me, and the other guests seriously questioning our perceptions of reality. Not just another drop in the bucket 😂 IYKYK!!

11/17/2025

Clearing off my phone, clearing off my phone....some shots of Baby Clem and our intern Whiskers from Sundre Museum and World of Wildlife in . We went to a new and wonderful Sugoi Ramen...YUM!! A stop in the Okanagan always means a stop Kelly O'Bryan's Restaurant- for Patchos with Emerald Isle Sauce. Spent an afternoon (and *cough* too much money *cough*) at . Back when we lived in the Okanagan, our landlord Joe made the most wonderful pure apple juice (nothing in it but apples). This is the first time I've been able to buy it outside a farmers market. If you never have, you need to. Heaven! We also got to hang out with our buddy Cliff Lattery from the band Adapter Band at The Kal. I'm always a little leary of cover bands but Cliff's my friend...they were a bunch of fun playing playing for the Downtown Vernon Association!! Also, BEACH!!