While the new museum building was being built, Moderna Museet was relocated to the tram sheds on Birger Jarlsgatan in central Stockholm. As Moneo’s new construction began to take shape on Skeppsholmen, the temporary activities in the tram sheds were drawing to an end.

In November 1996, David Elliott was appointed director of the museum. Elliott, who had previously headed the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, was Moderna Museet’s first foreign director. At last, in the 40^th year of Moderna Museet’s existence, the new museum was inaugurated on February 12^th, 1998. Robert Weil was on the board of the new museum from 1998. In 2001, together with artists Dan Wolgers and Marie Louise Ekman, he left the board under protest, saying the museum gave up too easily to current commercial interests, thereby losing its artistic integrity.

Tre avhopp från Moderna – DN 2001