diff --git a/INSTALL.rst b/INSTALL.rst
index 0145863cfbcc..6658a0558898 100644
--- a/INSTALL.rst
+++ b/INSTALL.rst
@@ -45,10 +45,15 @@ The wheels (:file:`*.whl`) on the `PyPI download page
 <https://pypi.org/project/matplotlib/>`_ do not contain test data
 or example code.
 
+
 If you want to try the many demos that come in the Matplotlib source
 distribution, download the :file:`*.tar.gz` file and look in the
 :file:`examples` subdirectory.
 
+If you are using conda and conda-forge you can install the test data as follows::
+
+  conda install -c conda-forge mpl_sample_data
+
 To run the test suite:
 
 * extract the :file:`lib/matplotlib/tests` or :file:`lib/mpl_toolkits/tests`