Stagecoach Inn Museum, Newbury Park

About Stagecoach Inn Museum

Stagecoach Inn Museum in Newbury Park preserves the Conejo Valley's history through restored buildings and exhibits spanning Native American, Spanish colonial, ranching, and pioneer eras. Visitors explore a Pioneer House, an Adobe structure, a Chuck Wagon, and a Blacksmith shop with demonstrations. The museum features a Timber School building, a dining room exhibit, and the Tice Hair Exhibit. Programs include Folklorico dancing performances and educational classes. Live animals inhabit the grounds, and visitors encounter period-appropriate furnishings and tools throughout the compound. The museum also interprets the nearby Jungleland site, which operated as an exotic animal facility and amusement park where trained animal actors performed for Hollywood films. Visitors can learn how lions, elephants, giraffes, camels, and chimpanzees were part of the region's cultural landscape. The museum grounds reveal how Spanish land grants transformed into American settlement, cattle ranching, and eventually modern tourism attractions that shaped Thousand Oaks and surrounding communities.