I’m amazed they would let you bring in a camera. Who ever will pay to go in there now?
I’ve seen all I need to see!
That looks positively bizarre, I must admit. It reminds me of my local pub when I used to live in Hampshire, England - which has a set of stuffed squirrels and weasels playing a game of cricket in the shelf above the bar. Every time I went there I had to re-visit the weirdness, and it never quite became normal.
Yeah, I’m a furry carnivore. They’re dead now, who cares? 
Fair enough. Also love to eat the meat here, but even though I’m not morally opposed to eating animals, I am opposed to making them spend the afterlife boxing, fishing, and ballroom dancing.
I’ve emailed my parents who travel a lot in Canada and would appreciate this.
What did they have at the gift shop and what did you get?
I see a real oppurtunity for the White Elephant thread.
One of my favorite spoken word stories of all time is Kevin Kling’s Taxidermy which has exactly this type of diorama (is that the right word? probably not…) as its subject. I wish I could link you to it- it’s the most awesome story ever.
Gopherama?
Bizarro-ama?
Rodentrama?
There was a thread here years ago about weird taxidermy. The (forgotten now) poster wrote about his aunt, who “loved her kitties a little bit too much.” When they died, the aunt had her husband, a taxidermist, stuff the kitties. Every Christmas, she would stage the corpses in a creche, complete with a kitten in the manger, and three king cats. In keeping with the tradition that one of the kings was from Nubia, she made sure that her dead black kitty was one of the visiting royalty. I think I remember that stuffed chipmunks were fitted with wings and suspended over the stable as angels. Would I love to see that on flicker.
Astonishing.
Two dead gophers and a double-double. THAT would make my day.
Signed,
Someone who’s tripped in one too many goddamned gopher holes.
And a dead lawyer!
Tapioca those fighting squirrels are awesome!
Fighting Squirrels = Band Name!
I’m not sure what is more disturbing: the fact someone went to all the trouble to create that “museum” or that people go so far out of their way and presumably pay money to see it.
We are disturbed.
I blew a tank of gas and was out of there in ten minutes.
I did it for all of you people.
meek
Visiting the crappy spots - so you don’t have to.
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I went to the museum the day after my wedding (at my husbands request). He thought that the visiting family had not truly seen Alberta until they had seen the gophers. So we planned this big day that involved a little sidetrack to Torrington.
Unfortunately he wound up too hung over to make the drive…
The rest of us still went and we took pictures to make him a gopher calendar for Christmas 
I can’t wait to see the look on his face when he opens that gift 
I thank you sir for your service. Between this thread and the furry thread I think I’ve gotten enough “critter education” for one day.
Lovely Older Farm Home
Oil heat, all new kitchen
2 baths, 4 bedrooms
home office!
Outbuildings include Gopher Museum
Now, I daresay there are likely more than a few message boards out there whose members would respond with interest and approval to the OP’s anthropomorphic gopher taxidermy slideshow.
But I have to think there’s something just a little bit special about a message board where the fifth reply to such an OP is, “Oh yeah, my great great grandpa was also heavily into anthropomorphic gopher taxidermy.”
meek and Tapioca Dextrin, thanks for being SDMB members.
God bless the insane small town museums everywhere. It does my heart good to know that, in this often cold and unfeeling world we live in, some of us still care enough to dress a dead gopher in a tiny bikini.
Oh. So I didn’t need to hang out in Barons? Or go to Vulcan, or Granum, or Macleod?
This totally sounds like an episode of Corner Gas, doesn’t it?
ETA: and this town’s even smaller than Dog River!
The ought to have built a giant hoe to commemorate their agricultural past.