The Saint Patrick Centre

The Saint Patrick Visitor Centre is a modern-day exhibition complicated positioned in Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is a everlasting interpretative exhibition centre proposing interactive presentations on the existence and tale of Saint Patrick, the purchaser saint of Ireland. It provides the handiest permanent exhibition centre in the world devoted to Saint Patrick. It is situated within the metropolis centre, below Down Cathedral and the website online of Saint Patrick's grave and is open all year round. It become set up the use of Millennium Project funding from the National Lottery, value 6.3m and opened in 2001.

In the exhibition, entitled Ego Patricius, Saint Patrick's very own phrases are used to illuminate the arrival of Christianity in Ireland and its development thru his venture. It also well-knownshows the artwork and metalwork which were features of the Early Christian period, in addition to the primary impact of Irish missionaries in this era in Europe. The exhibition makes use of a multi-media method and kingdom-of-the art technology to consciousness on the historical Saint Patrick and not at the legends, in addition to a film shown inside the purpose-built cinema. The design involves formidable glass partitions, life-length figurines, motion pictures and voice recordings.