diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 9aebf5d42d954..c56a764dbccfd 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ New library features
   the uniquing checking ([#53474])
 * `RegexMatch` objects can now be used to construct `NamedTuple`s and `Dict`s ([#50988])
 * `Lockable` is now exported ([#54595])
+* `Base.require_one_based_indexing` and `Base.has_offset_axes` are now public ([#56196])
 * New `ltruncate`, `rtruncate` and `ctruncate` functions for truncating strings to text width, accounting for char widths ([#55351])
 
 Standard library changes
diff --git a/base/public.jl b/base/public.jl
index 1a23550485d84..8777a454c920a 100644
--- a/base/public.jl
+++ b/base/public.jl
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ public
     acquire,
     release,
 
+# arrays
+    has_offset_axes,
+    require_one_based_indexing,
+
 # collections
     IteratorEltype,
     IteratorSize,
diff --git a/doc/src/base/arrays.md b/doc/src/base/arrays.md
index 66fe5c78f1ee6..defe497daf00c 100644
--- a/doc/src/base/arrays.md
+++ b/doc/src/base/arrays.md
@@ -115,6 +115,12 @@ Base.checkindex
 Base.elsize
 ```
 
+While most code can be written in an index-agnostic manner (see, e.g., [`eachindex`](@ref)), it can sometimes be useful to explicitly check for offset axes:
+```@docs
+Base.require_one_based_indexing
+Base.has_offset_axes
+```
+
 ## Views (SubArrays and other view types)
 
 A “view” is a data structure that acts like an array (it is a subtype of `AbstractArray`), but the underlying data is actually