
The Peterson Collection
RTPI is home to the largest collection of Roger's original artworks, films and slides, personal effects, and other archival materials. To explore the collection is to join Roger as he traveled the world in search of birds and other fauna and flora to paint, photograph, film, and in many instances, protect. At RTPI, our job is to steward this unique, world-class collection, to make it accessible to scholars and researchers, and to share it as broadly and creatively as we can with artists, conservationists and lovers of nature all over the world.
At RTPI, items from the collection are on rotating display throughout the museum, including the first floor Anderson Gallery and the second floor Tower Room Gallery. To take a virtual tour of the Anderson Gallery, please visit the Empire State Immersive Experiences website and search for Roger Tory Peterson Institute: https://esie.space/.
Online, images from the Fine Art section of the collection are accessible via our database. In Special Collections, finding aids for Roger’s personal and professional papers likewise are accessible in a searchable database (in the left-hand menu bar, scroll down to “Archives.”)
To make an appointment to visit the archives, please contact Rachael Kosinski, Curator, by email at rkosinski@rtpi.org, or by calling 773-665-2473, extension 221.
Featured artwork: Roger Tory Peterson, Tropical Forest Birds (Congo), The World of Birds, 1964. 2001.51.4.75
To take a virtual tour of the Anderson Gallery, please visit the Empire State Immersive Experiences website and search for Roger Tory Peterson Institute: https://esie.space/.
Featured artwork: Roger Tory Peterson, Miscellaneous Birds in Flight, The World of Birds, 1964. 2001.51.4.2