The longrunning science fiction television phenomenon The X-Files will reappear after a six-year hiatus in a second film to be released in theaters next week. But the show that brought to life Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully and added “The Truth Is out There” and “I Want to Believe” to pop lexicon is also finally showing its age.

This morning X-Files director/writer/producer Chris Carter was at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to present a series of items from the show to be placed on exhibit when the museum reopens this fall.

The items signed over to the Smithsonian include: the original television pilot script, an alien maquette statue, Scully’s cross necklace, the stiletto blade weapon used to kill aliens masquerading as people, the original “I Want to Believe” poster, a photograph of Mulder’s abducted sister, and a series of FBI badges and business cards used in the show.

“Standing up here feels like an X-file in itself,” said Carter, reflecting on where the show has taken him over the past 16 years.