diff --git a/pyqtgraph/metaarray/MetaArray.py b/pyqtgraph/metaarray/MetaArray.py
index 92930cae..f4eac1da 100644
--- a/pyqtgraph/metaarray/MetaArray.py
+++ b/pyqtgraph/metaarray/MetaArray.py
@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ class MetaArray(object):
   
     def __init__(self, data=None, info=None, dtype=None, file=None, copy=False, **kwargs):
         object.__init__(self)
+        warnings.warn(
+            'MetaArray is deprecated and will be removed in 0.14.',
+            DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2
+        )    
         self._isHDF = False
         
         if file is not None: