Museum No. 20
Author
Project of Ashira Morris
When
15 July 2025
Where
Stop "28th Postal Branch", opposite Iskar Station
Museum №20 will be a pop-up museum dedicated to the daily life of the trams from the depot “Iskar” and the people who manage, repair and use them.
The yellow trams №20 started their journey in Sofia in 1989 and continue to carry passengers around the city to this day. They are a permanent part of the city landscape, an unchanging element of the daily life of the citizens of Sofia during the decades of change. For one evening the Tram Museum will present the life of the trams from the Iskar depot.
The museum will be housed in tram #20, stopped near the depot. Visitors will be able to view exhibits and listen to recorded interviews with trainmen, technicians and passengers.
The trams from “Iskar” depot will soon be replaced with more modern multiple units. The museum will tell the story of the current trams while they are still running – capturing the present through a format usually reserved for the past. It will be a collection of memories experienced together.
Ashira Morris is a freelance reporter working between Tallahassee, Florida and Sofia, Bulgaria. She is interested in local environments and the forces that shape them, and her work has been published by Foreign Policy, Artforum and 99 Percent Invisible.
Her projects focus on Sofia’s inter-block parks, missing statues, yanka trees and informal municipal architecture in neighborhoods. She wrote the chapter on the Panhandle in A24’s “Florida!” book, and when she’s in town, you can find her recommending short story collections at Mahala Bookstore. She is an associate professor in the College of Journalism and Communication at the University of Florida.
Links
Presentation of an audio guide that can be listened to alone or in a group during a walk in the city