The exhibition, entitled North by Northwest, was officially opened by Mayor, Councillor Paul Fleming on Thursday.

Previously on display at Letterkenny Regional Cultural Centre, the exhibition was opened at the Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin.
Liam McCormick - whose architectural works are often described as some of the most important and memorable of the modern Ireland period - died in 1996.

His wife, Joy who lives in Greencastle, has been instrumental in putting together the exhibition with the loan of numerous personal objects.

Welcoming the exhibition to the Museum, Craig McGuicken of Derry City Council's Heritage and Museum Services said it was important for the McCormick family that his work was exhibited and celebrated in his home town.

During a long career his architecture embraced all buildings from churches and schools to private dwellings. It is probably the outstanding series of churches that Liam is best known for, the sensitivity to site and landscape, his naturally inventive approach to design and his commitment to Irish artists established him as the most important church architect of his generation.

Born in Derry on 24 October 1916, he developed an enduring attachment to the North West region, enthralled by its landscape and the people.

Liam is perhaps most well known for a church commission in 1964 at Burt, County Donegal, which is widely acknowledged as the first masterpiece of the post-Vatican II era in Ireland.

The church, St Aengus, formed a landmark in its physical setting but also in the development of modern Irish church architecture.