diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/nbval/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/nbval/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c9ab72894ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/nbval/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, coverage
+, ipykernel
+, jupyter_client
+, nbformat
+, pytest
+, six
+, glibcLocales
+, matplotlib
+, sympy
+, pytestcov
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "nbval";
+  version = "0.9.1";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "3f18b87af4e94ccd073263dd58cd3eebabe9f5e4d6ab535b39d3af64811c7eda";
+  };
+
+  LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8";
+
+  buildInputs = [ glibcLocales ];
+  checkInputs = [ matplotlib sympy pytestcov ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ coverage ipykernel jupyter_client nbformat pytest six ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    pytest tests --current-env --ignore tests/test_timeouts.py
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "A py.test plugin to validate Jupyter notebooks";
+    homepage = https://github.com/computationalmodelling/nbval;
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.costrouc ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index c2626721b8e..eb0334d8b8f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -434,6 +434,8 @@ in {
 
   mwoauth = callPackage ../development/python-modules/mwoauth { };
 
+  nbval = callPackage ../development/python-modules/nbval { };
+
   nest-asyncio = callPackage ../development/python-modules/nest-asyncio { };
 
   neuron = pkgs.neuron.override {