diff --git a/niivue/src/components/Menu.ts b/niivue/src/components/Menu.ts
index 1da664d..f78a2c4 100644
--- a/niivue/src/components/Menu.ts
+++ b/niivue/src/components/Menu.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { html } from 'htm/preact'
 import { AppProps } from './App'
 import { Signal, computed, effect, useSignal } from '@preact/signals'
-import { addImagesEvent, addOverlayEvent, openImageFromURL } from '../events'
+import { addDcmFolderEvent, addImagesEvent, addOverlayEvent, openImageFromURL } from '../events'
 import { SLICE_TYPE } from '@niivue/niivue'
 import { ScalingBox } from './ScalingBox'
 import { getMetadataString, getNumberOfPoints } from '../utility'
@@ -170,11 +170,12 @@ export const Menu = (props: AppProps) => {
       ${!isVscode && html`<${MenuButton} label="Home" onClick=${homeEvent} />`}
       <${MenuItem} label="Add Image" onClick=${addImagesEvent}>
         <${MenuEntry} label="File(s)" onClick=${addImagesEvent} />
-        <!-- <${MenuEntry} label="URL" onClick=${() => console.log('Not implemented yet - url')} />
+        <!-- <${MenuEntry} label="URL" onClick=${() =>
+    console.log('Not implemented yet - url')} /> -->
         <${MenuEntry}
           label="DICOM Folder"
-          onClick=${() => console.log('Not implemented yet - dicom folder')}
-        /> -->
+          onClick=${addDcmFolderEvent}
+        />
         <${MenuEntry} label="Example Image" onClick=${() =>
     openImageFromURL('https://niivue.github.io/niivue-demo-images/mni152.nii.gz')} />
       </${MenuItem}>
diff --git a/niivue/src/events.ts b/niivue/src/events.ts
index 15741ba..420f540 100644
--- a/niivue/src/events.ts
+++ b/niivue/src/events.ts
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ export function listenToMessages(appProps: AppProps) {
           nv.isNew = false
         }
         break
+      case 'addDcmFiles':
+        {
+          const nv = getUnitinializedNvInstance(nvArray)
+          readDcmFiles(nv, body.files)
+        }
+        break
       case 'initCanvas':
         {
           if (nvArray.value.length === 0 && body.n > 1) {
@@ -51,6 +57,30 @@ export function listenToMessages(appProps: AppProps) {
   addImageFromURLParams()
 }
 
+function readDcmFiles(nv: ExtendedNiivue, files: File[]): void {
+  if (files.length > 0) {
+    const getFileObjects = async (fileList: File[]): Promise<File[]> => {
+      return fileList // fileList is already an array of File objects
+    }
+    getFileObjects(files)
+      .then((allFileObjects) => {
+        NVImage.loadFromFile({
+          file: allFileObjects, // an array of file objects
+          name: allFileObjects[0].name, // Use the first filename
+          urlImgData: null, // nothing
+          imageType: 16, // DCM_FOLDER
+        })
+          .then((volume) => nv.addVolume(volume))
+          .catch((e) => {
+            throw e
+          })
+      })
+      .catch((e) => {
+        throw e
+      })
+  }
+}
+
 function handleDebugMessage(body: any, appProps: AppProps) {
   // sending arrays is fine, dataBuffer does not work
   // sending objects only works with one element inside
@@ -256,6 +286,29 @@ export function addImagesEvent() {
   }
 }
 
+export function addDcmFolderEvent() {
+  if (typeof vscode === 'object') {
+    vscode.postMessage({ type: 'addImages' })
+  } else {
+    const input = document.createElement('input')
+    input.type = 'file'
+    input.multiple = false
+    input.webkitdirectory = true
+
+    input.onchange = async (e) => {
+      const files = Array.from((e.target as HTMLInputElement).files ?? [])
+      window.postMessage({
+        type: 'addDcmFiles',
+        body: {
+          files: files,
+        },
+      })
+    }
+
+    input.click()
+  }
+}
+
 function getUnitinializedNvInstance(nvArray: Signal<ExtendedNiivue[]>) {
   const nv = nvArray.value.find((nv) => nv.isNew)
   if (nv) {