Mike Lefroy has lived in Fremantle for much of his working life, first as a Media teacher at local High Schools and then as Head of Education at the HM Bark Endeavour project and the Western Australian Maritime Museum.
In 2007 he left the museum to begin an education consultancy, Museums Without Walls, with his wife Joy who had just retired as Head of Education at the National Trust of WA.
One of their early contracts was to research and write education programs for the Jewel of Muscat project based in Oman. Its aim was to recreate a 9th century Arab trading ship from wreckage discovered in 1998 near the Island of Belitung in the South China Sea. The replica was built in Oman and sailed to Singapore where it was gifted to the Singaporean Government in 2012.
It is now a key exhibit in the Sentosa Maritime Experience Museum.
Mike has always been fascinated with ships and the sea, with a particular interest in navigational techniques developed from the very early maritime voyages.
