diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/metamorphose2/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/metamorphose2/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..277d00fe050b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/metamorphose2/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchgit, makeWrapper, gettext
+, python27, python2Packages
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  pname = "metamorphose2";
+  version = "0.9.0beta";
+
+  # exif-py vendored via submodule
+  # mutagen vendored via copy
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = "https://github.com/metamorphose/metamorphose2.git";
+    #rev = "refs/tags/v2.${version}"; #for when wxPython3 support is released
+    rev = "d2bdd6a86340b9668e93b35a6a568894c9909d68";
+    sha256 = "0ivcb3c8hidrff0ivl4dnwa2p3ihpqjdbvdig8dhg9mm5phdbabn";
+  };
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace messages/Makefile \
+      --replace "\$(shell which msgfmt)" "${gettext}/bin/msgfmt"
+  '';
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    rm $out/bin/metamorphose2
+    makeWrapper ${python27}/bin/python $out/bin/metamorphose2 \
+      --prefix PYTHONPATH : $PYTHONPATH:$(toPythonPath "$out") \
+      --add-flags "-O $out/share/metamorphose2/metamorphose2.py -w=3"
+  '';
+
+  buildInput = [ gettext python27 ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ python2Packages.wxPython python2Packages.pillow ];
+
+  makeFlags = [ "PREFIX=$(out)" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "a graphical mass renaming program for files and folders";
+    homepage    = "https://github.com/metamorphose/metamorphose2";
+    license     = with licenses; gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ramkromberg ];
+    platforms   = with platforms; linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 8d5f06f4fbbe..f040a9ec9769 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -820,7 +820,6 @@ mapAliases ({
   mercurial_4 = throw "mercurial_4 has been removed as it's unmaintained"; # Added 2021-10-18
   mesos = throw "mesos has been removed from nixpkgs, as it's unmaintained"; # Added 2020-08-15
   mess = mame; # Added 2019-10-30
-  metamorphose2 = throw "metamorphose2 has been removed from nixpkgs, as it was stuck on python2"; # Added 2022-01-12
   mididings = throw "mididings has been removed from nixpkgs as it doesn't support recent python3 versions and its upstream stopped maintaining it"; # Added 2022-01-12
   midoriWrapper = throw "'midoriWrapper' has been renamed to/replaced by 'midori'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
   mime-types = mailcap; # Added 2022-01-21
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 98c681368583..b8f496af9947 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8284,6 +8284,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   mencal = callPackage ../applications/misc/mencal { } ;
 
+  metamorphose2 = callPackage ../applications/misc/metamorphose2 { };
+
   metar = callPackage ../applications/misc/metar { };
 
   mfcuk = callPackage ../tools/security/mfcuk { };