A NASA exhibit on the Hubble and Webb space telescopes opens at the Everhart Museum this week — the first space show since a moon rock was displayed for one week in 1970.

“This is Smithsonian-level stuff,” CEO Tim Holmes said. NASA and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit team developed the first version of the exhibit two decades ago.

The exhibit opens Wednesday and will run at least until July at the museum in Nay Aug Park, Scranton. A sneak peek was held during the weekend.

“The Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe” has traveled to 28 states, with the nearest stops in New York state and Pittsburgh.

NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990 and released new findings this week. The exhibit also includes displays about the James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021.

The exhibit includes interactive kiosks. Patrons can point and click to zoom in on the big-screen map for close-ups of parts of space highlighted by the Hubble.

“It’s not just for kids, it’s also for adults,” said Everhart curator James Lansing. “I think they’re both interested in it. And if it keeps people’s interest in space, for me, that’s important.”

The 2,200-square-foot exhibit arrived in two 53-foot-long tractor-trailers. NASA subcontractors helped install it.

“The crates were 10 feet tall,” Holmes said. “We do not have a door in this 118-year-old building to get these things in here. So, we had to put a tent up outside to unload them. We had a forklift come. We had to take the railings off the back deck to get them through the Education Room to get them in here.”

Aside from some incidental costs, NASA provides the exhibit for free. Typically, a small museum like the Everhart can’t afford the rental fees charged by big traveling shows, Holmes said.

The Everhart had to wait around two years. The show usually books two venues annually.

The museum is having a big moment, Holmes said. An exhibit on the sitcom “The Office” will run into the fall. A well-known toy train exhibit, “Scranton to Scale: Don Clark’s Miniature Memories,” is on display until March.

The museum hours are Wednesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is closed Monday and Tuesday.

Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for those 60 and over, and students.

There is free general admission for children 12 and under, Everhart members, North American Reciprocal Museum (NARM) Association members, Reciprocal Organization of Associated Museums (ROAM) members, SNAP, WIC and EBT recipients, active and retired military and family.

There is an extra charge for “The Office” exhibit.

For more on the Hubble exhibit: science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/overview/at-the-museum.