diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index 2118082..64492e8 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -165,13 +165,13 @@ Please note that it doesn't makes much sense to use KDF keys and
 steganography, since the latter will invalidate the brute-forcing
 protection. For details on the issue see [KNOWN_BUGS.md](KNOWN_BUGS).
 
-### extras/po (translations)
+### extras/translations/
 
 There are translations available for Tomb and they are installed by
 default. If you wish to update them manually navigate to extras/po
 and run 'make install' as root:
 
-    cd extras/po
+    cd extras/translations
     sudo make install
 
 # Tomb support in other applications
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 94ef0ab..b9e154f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ install:
 	install -Dm644 doc/${PROG}.1 ${DESTDIR}${MANDIR}/man1/${PROG}.1
 	@echo
 	@echo "Tomb is installed succesfully. To install language translations, make sure"
-	@echo "gettext is also installed, then 'cd extras/po' and 'make install' there."
+	@echo "gettext is also installed, then 'cd extras/translations' and 'make install' there."
 	@echo
 	@echo "Look around the extras/ directory, it contains other interesting modules."
 	@echo
diff --git a/extras/po/Makefile b/extras/translations/Makefile
similarity index 100%
rename from extras/po/Makefile
rename to extras/translations/Makefile
diff --git a/extras/po/de.po b/extras/translations/de.po
similarity index 100%
rename from extras/po/de.po
rename to extras/translations/de.po
diff --git a/extras/po/es.po b/extras/translations/es.po
similarity index 100%
rename from extras/po/es.po
rename to extras/translations/es.po
diff --git a/extras/po/fr.po b/extras/translations/fr.po
similarity index 100%
rename from extras/po/fr.po
rename to extras/translations/fr.po
diff --git a/extras/po/generate_translatable_strings.pl b/extras/translations/generate_translatable_strings.pl
similarity index 100%
rename from extras/po/generate_translatable_strings.pl
rename to extras/translations/generate_translatable_strings.pl
diff --git a/extras/po/generate_translatable_strings.sh b/extras/translations/generate_translatable_strings.sh
similarity index 100%
rename from extras/po/generate_translatable_strings.sh
rename to extras/translations/generate_translatable_strings.sh
diff --git a/extras/po/it.po b/extras/translations/it.po
similarity index 100%
rename from extras/po/it.po
rename to extras/translations/it.po
diff --git a/extras/po/ru.po b/extras/translations/ru.po
similarity index 100%
rename from extras/po/ru.po
rename to extras/translations/ru.po
diff --git a/extras/po/sv.po b/extras/translations/sv.po
similarity index 100%
rename from extras/po/sv.po
rename to extras/translations/sv.po
diff --git a/extras/po/tomb.pot b/extras/translations/tomb.pot
similarity index 100%
rename from extras/po/tomb.pot
rename to extras/translations/tomb.pot