The exhibition in tribute to this researcher, who died in 2011, was opened on the occasion of International Women's Day.
Antonia Delfina Peronja, was born in the Argentine town of Casilda in 1944 and her parents were Croatian immigrants.
She was a historian specialised in anthropology and in 1972 she moved to Viedma to work in the local scientific centre and dedicated her professional life to the anthropologist research of the Río Negro Province.
She was the director of the Museo Eugenio Tello museum there.
According to the data provided by the Central State Office for the Croats abroad, an estimated 620,000 people of Croatian descent live in South America, and 300,000 of them are in Argentina.