diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 873eca7..94a67ba 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,23 +1,29 @@
 name = "AxisArrays"
 uuid = "39de3d68-74b9-583c-8d2d-e117c070f3a9"
-version = "0.4.6"
+version = "0.4.7"
 
 [deps]
+ArrayInterface = "4fba245c-0d91-5ea0-9b3e-6abc04ee57a9"
 Dates = "ade2ca70-3891-5945-98fb-dc099432e06a"
 IntervalSets = "8197267c-284f-5f27-9208-e0e47529a953"
 IterTools = "c8e1da08-722c-5040-9ed9-7db0dc04731e"
 RangeArrays = "b3c3ace0-ae52-54e7-9d0b-2c1406fd6b9d"
+Static = "aedffcd0-7271-4cad-89d0-dc628f76c6d3"
 
 [compat]
+ArrayInterface = "6"
 IntervalSets = "0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7"
 IterTools = "1"
 RangeArrays = "0.3"
+Static = "0.7"
 julia = "1"
 
 [extras]
+ArrayInterface = "4fba245c-0d91-5ea0-9b3e-6abc04ee57a9"
 Dates = "ade2ca70-3891-5945-98fb-dc099432e06a"
 OffsetArrays = "6fe1bfb0-de20-5000-8ca7-80f57d26f881"
 Random = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
+Static = "aedffcd0-7271-4cad-89d0-dc628f76c6d3"
 Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 Unitful = "1986cc42-f94f-5a68-af5c-568840ba703d"
 
diff --git a/src/AxisArrays.jl b/src/AxisArrays.jl
index 2a04b99..c2462de 100644
--- a/src/AxisArrays.jl
+++ b/src/AxisArrays.jl
@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@ VERSION < v"0.7.0-beta2.199" && __precompile__()
 
 module AxisArrays
 
+using ArrayInterface
 using Base: tail
 import Base.Iterators: repeated
 using RangeArrays, IntervalSets
 using IterTools
 using Dates
+using Static
 
 function axes end
 
diff --git a/src/core.jl b/src/core.jl
index 3871157..16cd37a 100644
--- a/src/core.jl
+++ b/src/core.jl
@@ -178,6 +178,8 @@ struct AxisArray{T,N,D,Ax} <: AbstractArray{T,N}
     AxisArray{T,N,D,Ax}(data::AbstractArray{T,N}, axs::Tuple{Vararg{Axis,N}}) where {T,N,D,Ax} = new{T,N,D,Ax}(data, axs)
 end
 
+ArrayInterface.is_forwarding_wrapper(@nospecialize T::Type{<:AxisArray}) = true
+
 """
     AxisMatrix{T}
 Alias for [`AxisArray{T,2,D,Ax}`](@ref AxisArray).
@@ -281,6 +283,13 @@ axisnames() = ()
 
 axisname(::Union{Type{<:Axis{name}},Axis{name}}) where {name} = name
 
+ArrayInterface.known_dimnames(@nospecialize T::Type{<:Axis}) = (axisname(T),)
+function ArrayInterface.known_dimnames(@nospecialize T::Type{<:AxisArray})
+    ArrayInterface.map_tuple_type(axisname, fieldtype(T, :axes))
+end
+ArrayInterface.dimnames(::Axis{name}) where {name} = (StaticSymbol(name),)
+ArrayInterface.dimnames(x::AxisArray) = static(ArrayInterface.known_dimnames(x))
+
 # Axis definitions
 """
     axisdim(::AxisArray, ::Axis) -> Int
diff --git a/test/core.jl b/test/core.jl
index 93da117..f8b9f17 100644
--- a/test/core.jl
+++ b/test/core.jl
@@ -347,3 +347,6 @@ end
 
 C = AxisArray(collect(reshape(1:15,3,5)), Axis{:y}([:a,:b,:c]), Axis{:x}(["a","b","c","d","e"]))
 @test occursin(r"axes:\n\s+:y,", summary(C))
+
+# ensure that ArrayInterface.is_forwarding_wrapper is properly propagating across wrapper
+@test @inferred(ArrayInterface.strides(AxisArray([1  2  3]'))) === (1, static(1))
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index a6f1a0e..83071b4 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 using AxisArrays
+using ArrayInterface
 using Dates
 using Test
 using Random
+using Static
 import IterTools
 
 @testset "AxisArrays" begin