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The '''Government Warehouse''' is a plot device used in [[Film|movie]]s, [[Television program|television series]], and [[novel]]s, a scenario used in [[role-playing game]]s, and a belief of some [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theorists]]. The concept is that there is a secret government warehouse where various items are stored of whose existence the [[government]] wants the general populace to remain ignorant.

==Notable fictional versions==
An early and significantly notable appearance was in ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' (1981) as the final resting place of the [[Ark of the Covenant]].  Since then a version of that warehouse has been the primary focus of a number of independent fictional works:

* ''[[GURPS]] Warehouse 23'' (1997, ISBN 1-55634-328-0): A role-playing game supplement written by [[S. John Ross (writer)|S. John Ross]], where the warehouse is run by the Secret Masters of ''GURPS [[Illuminati]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/warehouse23 |title=GURPS Warehouse 23 |work=GURPS Worldbook Index |publisher=[[Steve Jackson Games]]}}</ref> [[Steve Jackson Games]] also calls its online store "Warehouse 23".
* [[The Librarian franchise|''The Librarian'']] (2004–2008): A film series starring [[Noah Wyle]] where the Metropolitan Public Library is a cover for the group that runs the warehouse.
* ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' (2009–): A [[Syfy]] television series where the warehouse is run by a secret division of the [[United States Secret Service]].

==Real-world government warehouses ==
{{seealso|Government warehouse (non-fiction)}}
The government warehouses of fiction and [[conspiracy theories]] have 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>{{cite web |url=http://asv.vatican.va/home_en.htm |title=Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum |publisher=[[Vatican Secret Archives]]}}</ref> are alleged to hold many secrets, such as unpublished records of the [[Knights Templar]]. The Vatican's archives are a main plot element in [[Dan Brown]]'s novel ''[[Angels & Demons]]''. Many prominent museums have extensive archives which often lay undisturbed for decades, such as the [[Egyptian Museum]] in Cairo, which was found in 2002 to have 80,000 items—more than half the museum's collection—stored away in its vaults.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1213_021213_cairomuseum.html |title=Cairo Museum Unveils "Lost" Egyptian Treasures |first=Nancy |last=Gupton |work=National Geographic News |publisher=[[National Geographic Society]] |date=December 13, 2002}}</ref>

In the United States, the [[National Archives and Records Administration]] and the [[Library of Congress]] both have numerous government warehouses to store historic items and documents.

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[[Category:Conspiracy theories]]
[[Category:Fictional secret bases]]
[[Category:Literary devices]]
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