diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/snowflake/snowpark/DataFrame.scala b/src/main/scala/com/snowflake/snowpark/DataFrame.scala
index 8fd81ab2..9d08f924 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/snowflake/snowpark/DataFrame.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/snowflake/snowpark/DataFrame.scala
@@ -2008,7 +2008,10 @@ class DataFrame private[snowpark] (
         joinTableFunction(
           tableFunctions.flatten.call(Map("input" -> Column(expr), "mode" -> lit("array"))),
           partitionByOrderBy).select(columns :+ Column("VALUE"))
-      case _: MapType => null
+      case _: MapType =>
+        joinTableFunction(
+          tableFunctions.flatten.call(Map("input" -> Column(expr), "mode" -> lit("object"))),
+          partitionByOrderBy).select(columns ++ Seq(Column("KEY"), Column("VALUE")))
       case _ => null
     }
   }
diff --git a/src/test/scala/com/snowflake/snowpark_test/TableFunctionSuite.scala b/src/test/scala/com/snowflake/snowpark_test/TableFunctionSuite.scala
index cc7adb91..4d110639 100644
--- a/src/test/scala/com/snowflake/snowpark_test/TableFunctionSuite.scala
+++ b/src/test/scala/com/snowflake/snowpark_test/TableFunctionSuite.scala
@@ -392,7 +392,18 @@ class TableFunctionSuite extends TestData {
     checkAnswer(
       df1.select(lit(1), tableFunctions.explode(df1("a")), df1("a")(1)),
       Seq(Row(1, "1", "2"), Row(1, "2", "2")))
+  }
 
+  test("explode with map column") {
+    val df = Seq("""{"a":1, "b": 2}""").toDF("a")
+    val df1 = df.select(
+      parse_json(df("a"))
+        .cast(types.MapType(types.StringType, types.IntegerType))
+        .as("a"))
+    df1.select(tableFunctions.explode(df1("a"))).show()
+    checkAnswer(
+      df1.select(lit(1), tableFunctions.explode(df1("a")), df1("a")("a")),
+      Seq(Row(1, "a", "1", "1"), Row(1, "b", "2", "1")))
   }
 
 }