Josefa Vicenta Giambastiani de Peláez

She wrote one of the classic textbooks for teaching geology in Argentina, published by Peuser in 1935, with numerous reissues and in addition to her discoveries in petrology, mineralogy and marble chemistry.

[3][4][5] Her PhD thesis was titled On the limestones from the El Sauce quarries: Mineralogical and chemical study and comparisons with other limestones from the Sierra de Córdoba[2] and concerned petrography, mineralogy and chemistry of the quarry marbles.

Her research revealed that she had discovered a geological twin: a symmetrical grouping of identical crystals, which is rare in calcite, a mineral.

She served as deputy director of the Council of Education of the Province of Córdoba, which financially supported the museum and its outreach activities.

The museum is used by school students and teachers as a space to learn and explore its many collections of rocks, minerals, relief maps and artifacts.