diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index e947712..2cad8c2 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 - MongoDB: Rename columns with leading underscores to use double leading underscores
+- MongoDB: Add support for UUID types
 
 ## 2024/09/02 v0.0.21
 - DynamoDB: Add special decoding for varied lists.
diff --git a/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/export.py b/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/export.py
index 87cafc1..bc301fc 100644
--- a/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/export.py
+++ b/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/export.py
@@ -24,8 +24,10 @@
 Export the documents from a MongoDB collection as JSON, to be ingested into CrateDB.
 """
 
+import base64
 import calendar
 import typing as t
+from uuid import UUID
 
 import bsonjs
 import dateutil.parser as dateparser
@@ -65,6 +67,9 @@ def extract_value(value, parent_type=None):
     """
     if isinstance(value, dict):
         if len(value) == 1:
+            if "$binary" in value and value["$binary"]["subType"] in ["03", "04"]:
+                decoded = UUID(bytes=base64.b64decode(value["$binary"]["base64"]))
+                return extract_value(decoded, parent_type)
             for k, v in value.items():
                 if k.startswith("$"):
                     return extract_value(v, k.lstrip("$"))
diff --git a/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/extract.py b/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/extract.py
index 74e58e8..9872a50 100644
--- a/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/extract.py
+++ b/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/extract.py
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
 import typing as t
 
 import bson
+from bson import OLD_UUID_SUBTYPE, UUID_SUBTYPE
 from pymongo.collection import Collection
 from rich import progress
 from rich.console import Console
@@ -197,4 +198,7 @@ def get_type(value):
             return "INTEGER"
         else:
             return "INT64"
+    if type_ is bson.binary.Binary:
+        if value.subtype in [OLD_UUID_SUBTYPE, UUID_SUBTYPE]:
+            return "UUID"
     return TYPES_MAP.get(type_, "UNKNOWN")
diff --git a/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/translate.py b/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/translate.py
index 6d7dcf4..ce1c42d 100644
--- a/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/translate.py
+++ b/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/translate.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 
 TYPES = {
     "OID": "TEXT",
+    "UUID": "TEXT",
     "DATETIME": "TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE",
     "TIMESTAMP": "TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE",
     "INT64": "BIGINT",