diff --git a/src/Flux.jl b/src/Flux.jl
index eccdd6a7..bb378d23 100644
--- a/src/Flux.jl
+++ b/src/Flux.jl
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ using Base: tail
 using MacroTools, Juno, Requires, Reexport, Statistics, Random
 using MacroTools: @forward
 
-export Chain, Dense, Maxout, RNN, LSTM, GRU, Conv, ConvTranspose, MaxPool, MeanPool,
+export Chain, Dense, Maxout, RNN, LSTM, GRU, Conv, ConvTranspose, SkipConnection, MaxPool, MeanPool,
        DepthwiseConv, Dropout, AlphaDropout, LayerNorm, BatchNorm, InstanceNorm, GroupNorm, 
        params, mapleaves, cpu, gpu, f32, f64
 
diff --git a/src/layers/basic.jl b/src/layers/basic.jl
index e640bb24..25107120 100644
--- a/src/layers/basic.jl
+++ b/src/layers/basic.jl
@@ -189,3 +189,33 @@ end
 function (mo::Maxout)(input::AbstractArray)
     mapreduce(f -> f(input), (acc, out) -> max.(acc, out), mo.over)
 end
+
+
+"""
+    SkipConnection(layers...)
+
+
+Creates a Skip Connection, which constitutes of a layer or Chain of consecutive layers
+and a shortcut connection linking the input to the block to the
+output through a user-supplied function.
+
+`SkipConnection` requires the output dimension to be the same as the input.
+"""
+
+struct SkipConnection
+  layers
+  connection::Function  #user can pass arbitrary connections here, such as `.+`
+end
+
+@treelike SkipConnection
+
+function (skip::SkipConnection)(input::AbstractArray)
+  #We apply the layers to the input and return the result of the application of the layers and the original input
+  skip.connection(skip.layers(input), input)
+end
+
+function Base.show(io::IO, b::SkipConnection)
+  print(io, "SkipConnection(")
+  join(io, b.layers, ", ")
+  print(io, ")")
+end