diff --git a/packages/nest-desktop/package.py b/packages/nest-desktop/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..98b7e6c79e314be7ced7c3813c97698422d38aad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/nest-desktop/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack.package import *
+
+
+class NestDesktop(PythonPackage):
+    """NEST Desktop is a web-based GUI for NEST Simulator and other 
+    simulators of spiking networks."""
+
+    homepage = "http://www.nest-desktop.github.io"
+    pypi     = "nest-desktop/nest_desktop-4.0.5.tar.gz"
+    git      = "https://github.com/nest-desktop/nest-desktop.git"
+
+    maintainers = ['spreizer']
+
+    version('4.0.5', sha256='fffd472bf2f5e1a4398ad82cbe626e1b306d68b0e3a31ffcca71cd3449d8ef2f')
+
+    variant("nest", default=False)
+
+    depends_on("python@3.9:", type=("build", "run"))
+    depends_on("py-setuptools", type=("build"))
+
+    depends_on('nest@3.0:', type=('run'), when='+nest')
+
diff --git a/spack.yaml b/spack.yaml
index beaf68f9b2a859e7365f33ae0941e3f597a548a7..f17f4f3ff518a2adc5cc8ac186bde72876b63737 100644
--- a/spack.yaml
+++ b/spack.yaml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ spack:
     - py-biobb-structure-checking@3.13.4
     - py-biobb-structure-utils@4.1.0
     - hxtorch@10.0-a1
+    - nest-desktop@4.0.5
     - nest@3.8 +sonata
     - neuron@8.2.3 +mpi
     - jaxsnn@10.0-a1