Museum No. 20
2025
Stop "28th Postal Branch", opposite Iskar Station
Museum No. 20 is a pop-up museum dedicated to the everyday life of the trams from Iskar Tram Depot and to the people who operate, repair and use them.
Museum No. 20 is a pop-up museum that Ashira Morris dedicates to the everyday life of the trams from Iskar Depot and to the people who operate, repair, and ride them.
The yellow No. 20 trams begin their journey in Sofia in 1989 and continue to transport passengers across the city to this day. A constant presence in the urban landscape, they remain an integral part of everyday life in Sofia through decades of change. For one evening, the Tram Museum presents the life of the trams from Iskar Depot, housed inside tram No. 20 parked near the depot itself. Visitors can explore the exhibits and listen to recorded interviews with tram drivers, technicians, and passengers.
The trams of Iskar Depot are soon to be replaced by newer models. The museum tells the story of the current trams while still in operation, capturing the present through a format usually reserved for the past. It is a shared collection of memories, lived together.
Ashira Morris is an independent reporter working between Tallahassee, Florida, and Sofia, Bulgaria. She is interested in local environments and the forces that shape them, and her work appears in Foreign Policy, Artforum, and 99 Percent Invisible.
Her projects focus on Sofia’s inter-block parks, missing statues, Ailanthus trees, and the informal municipal architecture of residential neighbourhoods. She authors the chapter on the Florida Panhandle in A24’s Florida!, and when in Sofia, she can be found recommending short story collections at Mahala Bookstore. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications.
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Presentation of an audio guide that can be listened to individually or in a group during a walk through the city