diff --git a/beets/importer.py b/beets/importer.py
index b7bfdb156..38d2a4e62 100644
--- a/beets/importer.py
+++ b/beets/importer.py
@@ -1054,6 +1054,12 @@ class ArchiveImportTask(SentinelImportTask):
                 pass
             else:
                 cls._handlers.append((is_rarfile, RarFile))
+            try:
+                from py7zr import is_7zfile, SevenZipFile
+            except ImportError:
+                pass
+            else:
+                cls._handlers.append((is_7zfile, SevenZipFile))
 
         return cls._handlers
 
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 6d99dbc89..b3447b936 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -216,6 +216,10 @@ Other new things:
   ``check_on_import`` config option.
 * :doc:`/plugins/export`: big speedups when `--include-keys` option is used
   Thanks to :user:`ssssam`.
+* Added 7z support via the `py7zr`_ library
+  Thanks to :user:`arogl`.  :bug:`3906`
+
+  .. _py7zr: https://pypi.org/project/py7zr/
 
 Fixes:
 
diff --git a/docs/reference/cli.rst b/docs/reference/cli.rst
index d450b299a..0be752eab 100644
--- a/docs/reference/cli.rst
+++ b/docs/reference/cli.rst
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ albums (the latter case is true of typical Artist/Album organizations
 and many people's "downloads" folders). The path can also be a single
 song or an archive. Beets supports `zip` and `tar` archives out of the
 box. To extract `rar` files, install the `rarfile`_ package and the
-`unrar` command.
+`unrar` command. To extract `7z` files, install the `py7zr`_ package.
 
 Optional command flags:
 
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ Optional command flags:
     beet import --set genre="Alternative Rock" --set mood="emotional"
 
 .. _rarfile: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rarfile/
+.. _py7zr: https://pypi.org/project/py7zr/
 
 .. only:: html
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8191d3888..ca0dc819d 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -130,7 +130,9 @@ setup(
         ] + [
             'discogs-client' if (sys.version_info < (3, 0, 0))
             else 'python3-discogs-client'
-        ],
+        ] + (
+            ['py7zr'] if (sys.version_info > (3, 5, 0)) else []
+        ),
         'lint': [
             'flake8',
             'flake8-coding',
diff --git a/test/rsrc/archive.7z b/test/rsrc/archive.7z
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6a09fdf4b
Binary files /dev/null and b/test/rsrc/archive.7z differ
diff --git a/test/test_importer.py b/test/test_importer.py
index 3418d4628..48cb23378 100644
--- a/test/test_importer.py
+++ b/test/test_importer.py
@@ -450,6 +450,12 @@ class ImportRarTest(ImportZipTest):
         return os.path.join(_common.RSRC, b'archive.rar')
 
 
+class Import7zTest(ImportZipTest):
+
+    def create_archive(self):
+        return os.path.join(_common.RSRC, b'archive.7z')
+
+
 @unittest.skip('Implement me!')
 class ImportPasswordRarTest(ImportZipTest):