diff --git a/bin/near-cli.js b/bin/near-cli.js
index 224918dc..6c3d27b4 100644
--- a/bin/near-cli.js
+++ b/bin/near-cli.js
@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ yargs // eslint-disable-line
     .command(require('../commands/dev-deploy'))
     .command(require('../commands/call'))
     .command(callViewFunction)
+    .command(require('../commands/view-state'))
     .command(sendMoney)
     .command(clean)
     .command(stake)
diff --git a/commands/view-state.js b/commands/view-state.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cbe66ded
--- /dev/null
+++ b/commands/view-state.js
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+const exitOnError = require('../utils/exit-on-error');
+const connect = require('../utils/connect');
+const { formatResponse } = require('../utils/inspect-response');
+const { utils } = require('near-api-js');
+
+
+module.exports = {
+    command: 'view-state <account-id> [prefix]',
+    desc: 'View contract storage state',
+    builder: (yargs) => yargs
+        .option('prefix', {
+            desc: 'Return keys only with given prefix.',
+            type: 'string',
+            default: ''
+            
+        })
+        .option('block-id', {
+            desc: 'The block number OR the block hash (base58-encoded).',
+            type: 'string',
+            
+        })
+        .option('finality', {
+            desc: '`optimistic` uses the latest block recorded on the node that responded to your query,\n' + 
+                '`final` is for a block that has been validated on at least 66% of the nodes in the network',
+            type: 'string',
+            choices: ['optimistic', 'final'],
+            
+        })
+        .option('utf8', {
+            desc: 'Decode keys and values as UTF-8 strings',
+            type: 'boolean',
+            default: false
+        }),
+    handler: exitOnError(viewState)
+};
+
+async function viewState(options) {
+    const { accountId, prefix, finality, blockId, utf8 } = options;
+    const near = await connect(options);
+    const account = await near.account(accountId);
+
+    let state = await account.viewState(prefix, { blockId, finality });
+    if (utf8) {
+        state = state.map(({ key, value}) => ({ key: key.toString('utf-8'), value: value.toString('utf-8') }))
+    }
+    console.log(formatResponse(state, options));
+}