diff --git a/src/core/InstancedBufferGeometry.js b/src/core/InstancedBufferGeometry.js
index a021bbf88fa2428cc4d21866a0c2562e8ac56cf0..718ede5c88f6b262b078ee0e814b4d7d143cd5a8 100644
--- a/src/core/InstancedBufferGeometry.js
+++ b/src/core/InstancedBufferGeometry.js
@@ -33,6 +33,16 @@ InstancedBufferGeometry.prototype = Object.assign( Object.create( BufferGeometry
 
 		return new this.constructor().copy( this );
 
+	},
+
+	toJSON: function(){
+		var data = InstancedBufferGeometry.prototype.toJSON.call( this );
+
+		data.maxInstancedCount = this.maxInstancedCount;
+
+		data.isInstancedBufferGeometry = true;
+
+		return data;
 	}
 
 } );
diff --git a/src/loaders/BufferGeometryLoader.js b/src/loaders/BufferGeometryLoader.js
index b6332bfe0c952cb7a008c164f6f50fb7ba18859d..5cadba84d14925565c39feea804a69aee011f0e3 100644
--- a/src/loaders/BufferGeometryLoader.js
+++ b/src/loaders/BufferGeometryLoader.js
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import { BufferAttribute } from '../core/BufferAttribute.js';
 import { BufferGeometry } from '../core/BufferGeometry.js';
 import { FileLoader } from './FileLoader.js';
 import { DefaultLoadingManager } from './LoadingManager.js';
+import { InstancedBufferGeometry } from '../core/InstancedBufferGeometry.js';
+import { InstancedBufferAttribute } from '../core/InstancedBufferAttribute.js';
 
 /**
  * @author mrdoob / http://mrdoob.com/
@@ -33,7 +35,7 @@ Object.assign( BufferGeometryLoader.prototype, {
 
 	parse: function ( json ) {
 
-		var geometry = new BufferGeometry();
+		var geometry = json.isInstancedBufferGeometry ? new InstancedBufferGeometry() : new BufferGeometry();
 
 		var index = json.data.index;
 
@@ -50,8 +52,8 @@ Object.assign( BufferGeometryLoader.prototype, {
 
 			var attribute = attributes[ key ];
 			var typedArray = new TYPED_ARRAYS[ attribute.type ]( attribute.array );
-
-			var bufferAttribute = new BufferAttribute( typedArray, attribute.itemSize, attribute.normalized );
+			var bufferAttributeConstr = attribute.isInstancedBufferAttribute ? InstancedBufferAttribute : BufferAttribute;
+			var bufferAttribute = new bufferAttributeConstr( typedArray, attribute.itemSize, attribute.normalized );
 			if ( attribute.name !== undefined ) bufferAttribute.name = attribute.name;
 			geometry.addAttribute( key, bufferAttribute );
 
diff --git a/src/loaders/ObjectLoader.js b/src/loaders/ObjectLoader.js
index 53594b10244e12a5b9267be35dbcc7836d10ac0d..7e4f52e3e395079769825956616ba125c9c678de 100644
--- a/src/loaders/ObjectLoader.js
+++ b/src/loaders/ObjectLoader.js
@@ -430,6 +430,7 @@ Object.assign( ObjectLoader.prototype, {
 						break;
 
 					case 'BufferGeometry':
+					case 'InstancedBufferGeometry':
 
 						geometry = bufferGeometryLoader.parse( data );