Scapa Flow Museum showing Orkney island’s wartime role up for top prize

UK museum of the year award has shortlist of five showing astonishing ambition and boundless creativity'

A museum on a small island in Orkney that became the Royal Navy's nerve centre during both world wars has been shortlisted for museum of the year.

The Scapa Flow Museum tells the story of how the island of Hoy became essential to Britain's defence with the construction of a large naval base. It reopened last year after a 4.4m redevelopment.