diff --git a/src/array_partition.jl b/src/array_partition.jl
index c7d8c3ec..5d2b7c55 100644
--- a/src/array_partition.jl
+++ b/src/array_partition.jl
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ Base.zero(A::ArrayPartition{T,S}) where {T,S} = ArrayPartition{T,S}(zero.(A.x))
 # ignore dims since array partitions are vectors
 Base.zero(A::ArrayPartition, dims::NTuple{N,Int}) where {N} = zero(A)
 
+## Array
+
+Base.Array(VA::AbstractVectorOfArray{T,N,A}) where {T,N,A <: AbstractVector{<:ArrayPartition}} = reduce(hcat,Array.(VA.u))
+
 ## ones
 
 # special to work with units
diff --git a/src/zygote.jl b/src/zygote.jl
index c427c3e7..7ec77d3c 100644
--- a/src/zygote.jl
+++ b/src/zygote.jl
@@ -14,3 +14,12 @@ ZygoteRules.@adjoint function getindex(VA::AbstractVectorOfArray, i, j...)
   end
   VA[i,j...],AbstractVectorOfArray_getindex_adjoint
 end
+
+ZygoteRules.@adjoint function ArrayPartition(x...)
+  function ArrayPartition_adjoint(_y)
+      y = Array(_y)
+      starts = vcat(0,cumsum(reduce(vcat,length.(x))))
+      ntuple(i -> reshape(y[starts[i]+1:starts[i+1]],size(x[i])),length(x))
+  end
+  ArrayPartition(x...),ArrayPartition_adjoint
+end