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Government warehouse (fiction)
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[[Image:Government Warehouse.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The Government Warehouse at the end of the movie ''[[Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''.]]

(contracted; show full)a number of analogues in the real world, although some are not run by official national governments. Historically, the template is the [[Library of Alexandria|Great Library of Alexandria]], which held an extensive collection of written works but was repeatedly destroyed during the first millennium AD. The [[Vatican Secret Archives]]<ref>[http://asv.vatican.va/home_en.htm Vatican<!-- bot-generated title -->] at asv.vatican.va</ref> are alleged to hold the secrets of the [[Knights Templar]]
 (a similar allegation is levelled at the [[Louvre]] in [[Paris]]). Many prominent museums have extensive archives which often lay undisturbed for decades, such as the [[Cairo Museum]] in Egypt, which was found in 2002 to have 80,000 items - more than half the museum's collection - stored away in its vaults.<ref>[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1213_021213_cairomuseum.html Cairo Museum Unveils &quot;Lost&quot; Egyptian Treasures<!-- bot-generated title -->] at news.nationalgeographic.com</ref>

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* [http://www.warehouse23.com/basement Warehouse 23] allegedly run by a joint venture between the US Government and the [[Illuminati]], this is actually (and openly) run by [[Steve Jackson Games]]. Readers can submit new items.

[[Category:Conspiracy theories]]
[[Category:Fictional secret bases]]
[[Category:Plot devices]]
[[Category:Warehouses]]

[[it:Magazzini del governo]]