diff --git a/src/transformers/models/blip/modeling_blip.py b/src/transformers/models/blip/modeling_blip.py
index 39506478f17926..bd61a1cbd781e7 100644
--- a/src/transformers/models/blip/modeling_blip.py
+++ b/src/transformers/models/blip/modeling_blip.py
@@ -814,6 +814,59 @@ def get_image_features(
 
         return image_features
 
+    @add_start_docstrings_to_model_forward(BLIP_INPUTS_DOCSTRING)
+    def get_multimodal_features(
+        self,
+        input_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
+        pixel_values: Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None,
+        attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+        return_dict: Optional[bool] = None,
+    ) -> torch.FloatTensor:
+        r"""
+        Returns:
+            multimodal_features (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, output_dim`): The multimodal embeddings
+            obtained by applying the image embeddings to the text encoder using the cross-attention mechanism.
+
+        Examples:
+        ```python
+        >>> from PIL import Image
+        >>> import requests
+        >>> from transformers import AutoProcessor, BlipModel
+
+        >>> model = BlipModel.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base")
+        >>> processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base")
+
+        >>> url = "http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"
+        >>> image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)
+        >>> texts = ["a photo of a cat", "a photo of a dog"]
+        >>> inputs = processor(images=image, text=texts, padding=True, return_tensors="pt")
+
+        >>> multimodal_features = model.get_multimodal_features(**inputs)
+        ```"""
+        return_dict = return_dict if return_dict is not None else self.config.use_return_dict
+        vision_outputs = self.vision_model(
+            pixel_values=pixel_values,
+            output_attentions=True,
+            output_hidden_states=True,
+            return_dict=return_dict,
+        )
+
+        image_embeds = vision_outputs[0]
+        image_atts = torch.ones(image_embeds.size()[:-1], dtype=torch.long)
+
+        text_outputs = self.text_model(
+            input_ids=input_ids,
+            attention_mask=attention_mask,
+            encoder_hidden_states=image_embeds,
+            encoder_attention_mask=image_atts,
+            return_dict=return_dict,
+        )
+
+        pooled_output = text_outputs[1]  # pooled_output
+        multimodal_features = self.text_projection(pooled_output)
+
+        return multimodal_features
+
     @add_start_docstrings_to_model_forward(BLIP_INPUTS_DOCSTRING)
     @replace_return_docstrings(output_type=BlipOutput, config_class=BlipConfig)
     def forward(
diff --git a/tests/models/blip/test_modeling_blip.py b/tests/models/blip/test_modeling_blip.py
index 86ea1a8e363607..4caba63a310462 100644
--- a/tests/models/blip/test_modeling_blip.py
+++ b/tests/models/blip/test_modeling_blip.py
@@ -582,6 +582,63 @@ def test_model_from_pretrained(self):
         model = BlipModel.from_pretrained(model_name)
         self.assertIsNotNone(model)
 
+    def test_get_image_features(self):
+        config, inputs_dict = self.model_tester.prepare_config_and_inputs_for_common()
+
+        keys_to_pop = ["input_ids", "attention_mask", "return_loss"]
+
+        for key in keys_to_pop:
+            inputs_dict.pop(key)
+
+        model = BlipModel(config).to(torch_device)
+        model.eval()
+        image_features = model.get_image_features(**inputs_dict)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            image_features.shape,
+            (
+                self.model_tester.batch_size,
+                model.projection_dim,
+            ),
+        )
+
+    def test_get_text_features(self):
+        config, inputs_dict = self.model_tester.prepare_config_and_inputs_for_common()
+
+        keys_to_pop = ["pixel_values", "return_loss"]
+
+        for key in keys_to_pop:
+            inputs_dict.pop(key)
+
+        model = BlipModel(config).to(torch_device)
+        model.eval()
+        text_features = model.get_text_features(**inputs_dict)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            text_features.shape,
+            (
+                self.model_tester.batch_size,
+                model.projection_dim,
+            ),
+        )
+
+    def test_get_multimodal_features(self):
+        config, inputs_dict = self.model_tester.prepare_config_and_inputs_for_common()
+
+        keys_to_pop = ["return_loss"]
+
+        for key in keys_to_pop:
+            inputs_dict.pop(key)
+
+        model = BlipModel(config).to(torch_device)
+        model.eval()
+        multimodal_features = model.get_multimodal_features(**inputs_dict)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            multimodal_features.shape,
+            (
+                self.model_tester.batch_size,
+                model.projection_dim,
+            ),
+        )
+
     def test_pt_tf_model_equivalence(self):
         super().test_pt_tf_model_equivalence(allow_missing_keys=True)