diff --git a/package/MDAnalysis/analysis/hole2/hole.py b/package/MDAnalysis/analysis/hole2/hole.py
index 93a67a4bd0d..4167e0e50c8 100644
--- a/package/MDAnalysis/analysis/hole2/hole.py
+++ b/package/MDAnalysis/analysis/hole2/hole.py
@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ def _process_plot_kwargs(self, frames=None,
             frames = util.asiterable(frames)
 
         if color is None:
-            colormap = plt.cm.get_cmap(cmap)
+            colormap = matplotlib.colormaps.get_cmap(cmap)
             norm = matplotlib.colors.Normalize(vmin=min(frames),
                                                vmax=max(frames))
             colors = colormap(norm(frames))