diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bf20e294
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "mkdocs/themes/mkdocs-material"]
+	path = mkdocs/themes/mkdocs-material
+	url = https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material.git
diff --git a/mkdocs.yml b/mkdocs.yml
index 54752da8..ce829b7d 100644
--- a/mkdocs.yml
+++ b/mkdocs.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 site_name: Parallel Virtual Cluster documentation
-theme: readthedocs
+theme:
+  name: material
+  custom_dir: 'mkdocs/themes/mkdocs-material/material'
 markdown_extensions:
   - toc:
       permalink: yes
diff --git a/mkdocs/themes/mkdocs-material b/mkdocs/themes/mkdocs-material
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..79e18f22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mkdocs/themes/mkdocs-material
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 79e18f2286a9e141a8949f56438abc00e4f922f3