diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index af5000df863dc452196bcfd3d42cd3d94b85ae05..113e422f89a42b5f144925eea13738a8257c73c8 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 datascienceintro/imagenet_class_index.json
 datascienceintro/data/qm9
+datascienceintro/data/mnist