Art Deco Museum
 Location within Moscow
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| Established | 2014 |
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| Location | Luzhnetskaya emb. 2/4, build. 4 Moscow, Russia |
| Coordinates | 55°42′56″N 37°34′26″E / 55.71556°N 37.57389°E |
| Curator | Mkrtich O. Okroyan |
| Website | en |
The Art Deco Museum is a museum in Moscow, Russia. It is one of the newest museums in the city, opening in 2014.
The museum was founded by Mkrtich Okroyan after he became an enthusiast of art deco architecture, building up a collection of artefacts worth over $100 million. He founded the Art Deco Russian House at the "The Four Seasons" complex in 2005. In 2010, he opened the Art Deco Gallery in Bayer & Co factory on the Luzhnetskaya Quay. The museum joined the International Council of Museums (ICOM) in 2015.
The museum's objects were collected by Okroyan over 15 years and now represents one of the largest collections of art deco end art nouveau objects in Russia. The collection includes more than 900 sculpture works in bronze and ivory of the 1920s years, more than 300 items of furniture, and as a significant number of objects of decorative and applied arts and graphics.
The core of the collection consists of nearly all the sculptures of Demetre Chiparus, a prominent representative of plastic architecture from the art deco period. A key piece in the collection is his composition Les Girls, representing five dancers on the stage of the music hall. The collection includes a number of works by Bruno Zach, Gerda Iro, Ferdinand Preiss, Paul Philippe, Otto Poertzel, and Claire Colinet.
At the beginning of the 2000s the collection of Mkrtich Okroyan had been replenished with art deco home decoration. The collection comprises works of outstanding designers of that time — Jacque-Emil Rulmana, , Paul Follo, Lui Xiu and André Mar. Taste to simple and pure forms, esthetic refinement, expensive and rare materials, impeccable technique are attributes of their works.
Decorative panels occupy one of the central stages among the permanent exhibition of the museum. There is a panel by the Parisian decorator Pierre Bobo which was specially created for Roseland ballroom in New York. Also, the decorative works of the lacquer artist Jean Dunand who participated in decorating the interiors of the ocean liner Normandy are presented.
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