diff --git a/src/transformers/models/auto/modeling_auto.py b/src/transformers/models/auto/modeling_auto.py
index 109dbb1948..3f80a36cc3 100755
--- a/src/transformers/models/auto/modeling_auto.py
+++ b/src/transformers/models/auto/modeling_auto.py
@@ -964,6 +964,7 @@ MODEL_FOR_TABLE_QUESTION_ANSWERING_MAPPING_NAMES = OrderedDict(
 
 MODEL_FOR_VISUAL_QUESTION_ANSWERING_MAPPING_NAMES = OrderedDict(
     [
+        ("blip", "BlipForQuestionAnswering"),
         ("blip-2", "Blip2ForConditionalGeneration"),
         ("vilt", "ViltForQuestionAnswering"),
     ]
diff --git a/tests/models/blip/test_modeling_blip.py b/tests/models/blip/test_modeling_blip.py
index 54512596b0..4e87dca58f 100644
--- a/tests/models/blip/test_modeling_blip.py
+++ b/tests/models/blip/test_modeling_blip.py
@@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ class BlipModelTest(ModelTesterMixin, PipelineTesterMixin, unittest.TestCase):
         {
             "feature-extraction": BlipModel,
             "image-to-text": BlipForConditionalGeneration,
+            "visual-question-answering": BlipForQuestionAnswering,
         }
         if is_torch_available()
         else {}