diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/IR/DialectResourceBlobManager.h b/mlir/include/mlir/IR/DialectResourceBlobManager.h
index e3f32b7a9ab5..6c30efde306e 100644
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/IR/DialectResourceBlobManager.h
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/IR/DialectResourceBlobManager.h
@@ -93,9 +93,14 @@ class DialectResourceBlobManager {
     return HandleT(&entry, dialect);
   }
 
+  /// Provide access to all the registered blobs via a callable. During access
+  /// the blob map is guaranteed to remain unchanged.
+  void getBlobMap(llvm::function_ref<void(const llvm::StringMap<BlobEntry> &)>
+                      accessor) const;
+
 private:
   /// A mutex to protect access to the blob map.
-  llvm::sys::SmartRWMutex<true> blobMapLock;
+  mutable llvm::sys::SmartRWMutex<true> blobMapLock;
 
   /// The internal map of tracked blobs. StringMap stores entries in distinct
   /// allocations, so we can freely take references to the data without fear of
diff --git a/mlir/lib/IR/DialectResourceBlobManager.cpp b/mlir/lib/IR/DialectResourceBlobManager.cpp
index b83b31e30ef1..83cc1879241d 100644
--- a/mlir/lib/IR/DialectResourceBlobManager.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/IR/DialectResourceBlobManager.cpp
@@ -63,3 +63,11 @@ auto DialectResourceBlobManager::insert(StringRef name,
     nameStorage.resize(name.size() + 1);
   } while (true);
 }
+
+void DialectResourceBlobManager::getBlobMap(
+    llvm::function_ref<void(const llvm::StringMap<BlobEntry> &)> accessor)
+    const {
+  llvm::sys::SmartScopedReader<true> reader(blobMapLock);
+
+  accessor(blobMap);
+}
diff --git a/mlir/unittests/IR/BlobManagerTest.cpp b/mlir/unittests/IR/BlobManagerTest.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d82482ddb793
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mlir/unittests/IR/BlobManagerTest.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+//===- mlir/unittest/IR/BlobManagerTest.cpp - Blob management unit tests --===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+#include "../../test/lib/Dialect/Test/TestDialect.h"
+#include "mlir/IR/DialectResourceBlobManager.h"
+#include "mlir/Parser/Parser.h"
+
+#include "gtest/gtest.h"
+
+using namespace mlir;
+
+namespace {
+
+StringLiteral moduleStr = R"mlir(
+"test.use1"() {attr = dense_resource<blob1> : tensor<1xi64> } : () -> ()
+
+{-#
+    dialect_resources: {
+    builtin: {
+        blob1: "0x08000000ABCDABCDABCDABCE"
+    }
+    }
+#-}
+)mlir";
+
+TEST(DialectResourceBlobManagerTest, Lookup) {
+  MLIRContext context;
+  context.loadDialect<test::TestDialect>();
+
+  OwningOpRef<ModuleOp> m = parseSourceString<ModuleOp>(moduleStr, &context);
+  ASSERT_TRUE(m);
+
+  const auto &dialectManager =
+      mlir::DenseResourceElementsHandle::getManagerInterface(&context);
+  ASSERT_NE(dialectManager.getBlobManager().lookup("blob1"), nullptr);
+}
+
+TEST(DialectResourceBlobManagerTest, GetBlobMap) {
+  MLIRContext context;
+  context.loadDialect<test::TestDialect>();
+
+  OwningOpRef<ModuleOp> m = parseSourceString<ModuleOp>(moduleStr, &context);
+  ASSERT_TRUE(m);
+
+  Block *block = m->getBody();
+  auto &op = block->getOperations().front();
+  auto resourceAttr = op.getAttrOfType<DenseResourceElementsAttr>("attr");
+  ASSERT_NE(resourceAttr, nullptr);
+
+  const auto &dialectManager =
+      resourceAttr.getRawHandle().getManagerInterface(&context);
+
+  bool blobsArePresent = false;
+  dialectManager.getBlobManager().getBlobMap(
+      [&](const llvm::StringMap<DialectResourceBlobManager::BlobEntry>
+              &blobMap) { blobsArePresent = blobMap.contains("blob1"); });
+  ASSERT_TRUE(blobsArePresent);
+
+  // remove operations that use resources - resources must still be accessible
+  block->clear();
+
+  blobsArePresent = false;
+  dialectManager.getBlobManager().getBlobMap(
+      [&](const llvm::StringMap<DialectResourceBlobManager::BlobEntry>
+              &blobMap) { blobsArePresent = blobMap.contains("blob1"); });
+  ASSERT_TRUE(blobsArePresent);
+}
+
+} // end anonymous namespace
diff --git a/mlir/unittests/IR/CMakeLists.txt b/mlir/unittests/IR/CMakeLists.txt
index 05cb36e19031..6ac4dfc99306 100644
--- a/mlir/unittests/IR/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/mlir/unittests/IR/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ add_mlir_unittest(MLIRIRTests
   TypeTest.cpp
   TypeAttrNamesTest.cpp
   OpPropertiesTest.cpp
+  BlobManagerTest.cpp
 
   DEPENDS
   MLIRTestInterfaceIncGen