diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b07a0f88..22b994ca 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 - Remove resource file and include icons directly ([#125](https://github.com/cbrnr/mnelab/pull/125) by [Clemens Brunner](https://github.com/cbrnr))
 - Improve internal logic of the ICA dialog ([#136](https://github.com/cbrnr/mnelab/pull/136) by [Lukas Stranger](https://github.com/stralu) and [Clemens Brunner](https://github.com/cbrnr))
 - Remove Pebble again and use multiprocessing.Pool ([#140](https://github.com/cbrnr/mnelab/pull/140) by [Clemens Brunner](https://github.com/cbrnr))
+- Require MNE >= 0.20 ([#146](https://github.com/cbrnr/mnelab/pull/146) by [Clemens Brunner](https://github.com/cbrnr))
 
 ## [0.5.3] - 2020-02-03
 ### Added
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d0eeed82..0a403596 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ MNELAB requires Python >= 3.6. In addition, the following Python packages are re
 - [numpy](http://www.numpy.org/) >= 1.14.0
 - [scipy](https://www.scipy.org/scipylib/index.html) >= 1.0.0
 - [matplotlib](https://matplotlib.org/) >= 2.1.0
-- [mne](https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python) >= 0.19.0
+- [mne](https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python) >= 0.20.0
 - [pyobjc-framework-Cocoa](https://pyobjc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) >= 5.2.0 (macOS only)
 - python.app (only when using Anaconda or Miniconda Python on macOS)
 
diff --git a/mnelab/dialogs/channelpropertiesdialog.py b/mnelab/dialogs/channelpropertiesdialog.py
index cdefa6be..d74942ab 100755
--- a/mnelab/dialogs/channelpropertiesdialog.py
+++ b/mnelab/dialogs/channelpropertiesdialog.py
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
 from qtpy.QtGui import QStandardItemModel, QStandardItem
 from qtpy.QtCore import Qt, QSortFilterProxyModel, Slot
 
-from mne.io.pick import channel_type, get_channel_types
+from mne.io.pick import channel_type, get_channel_type_constants
 
 
-channel_types = [k.upper() for k in get_channel_types().keys()]
+channel_types = [k.upper() for k in get_channel_type_constants().keys()]
 
 
 class ChannelPropertiesDialog(QDialog):
diff --git a/mnelab/model.py b/mnelab/model.py
index 5fe5cda8..598eba05 100644
--- a/mnelab/model.py
+++ b/mnelab/model.py
@@ -521,8 +521,7 @@ def get_info(self):
 
     @data_changed
     def drop_channels(self, drops):
-        # conversion to list required for MNE < 0.19
-        self.current["data"] = self.current["data"].drop_channels(list(drops))
+        self.current["data"] = self.current["data"].drop_channels(drops)
         self.current["name"] += " (channels dropped)"
 
     @data_changed
diff --git a/requirements-oldest.txt b/requirements-oldest.txt
index a5dc7e79..97291cd5 100644
--- a/requirements-oldest.txt
+++ b/requirements-oldest.txt
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ QtPy==1.9.0
 numpy==1.14.0
 scipy==1.0.0
 matplotlib==2.1.0
-mne==0.19.0
+mne==0.20.0
 pyobjc-framework-Cocoa==5.2.0; sys_platform == "darwin"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 23567cfd..c3ef85b5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
     keywords='EEG MEG MNE GUI electrophysiology',
     packages=find_packages(exclude=['contrib', 'docs', 'tests']),
     python_requires='>=3.6, <4',
-    install_requires=['mne>=0.19',
+    install_requires=['mne>=0.20',
                       'numpy>=1.14',
                       'scipy>=1.0',
                       'matplotlib>=2.1',