diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/README.rst b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/README.rst
index 3386d9855..2f40710e2 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/README.rst
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/README.rst
@@ -32,6 +32,15 @@ Setting Up Your Users
 
 For convenience, you can keep your normal user logged in on Chrome and your superuser logged in on Firefox (or similar), so that you can see how the site behaves for both kinds of users.
 
+Type checks
+^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Running type checks with mypy:
+
+::
+
+  $ mypy {{cookiecutter.project_slug}}
+
 Test coverage
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/requirements/local.txt b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/requirements/local.txt
index 63799d990..b8a7609c2 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/requirements/local.txt
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/requirements/local.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ psycopg2-binary==2.7.5  # https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg2
 
 # Testing
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+mypy==0.610  # https://github.com/python/mypy
 pytest==3.6.2  # https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest
 pytest-sugar==0.9.1  # https://github.com/Frozenball/pytest-sugar
 
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/setup.cfg b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/setup.cfg
index 1ec89c789..c2139f1db 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/setup.cfg
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/setup.cfg
@@ -5,3 +5,17 @@ exclude = .tox,.git,*/migrations/*,*/static/CACHE/*,docs,node_modules
 [pycodestyle]
 max-line-length = 120
 exclude = .tox,.git,*/migrations/*,*/static/CACHE/*,docs,node_modules
+
+[mypy]
+python_version = 3.6
+check_untyped_defs = True
+ignore_errors = False
+ignore_missing_imports = True
+strict_optional = True
+warn_unused_ignores = True
+warn_redundant_casts = True
+warn_unused_configs = True
+
+[mypy-*.migrations.*]
+# Django migrations should not produce any errors:
+ignore_errors = True