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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.

== RPG scenarios ==
The concept of a Government Warehouse has been used as a scenario for role-playing games:

* GURPS Warehouse 23 &mdash; a role playing aide based on a warehouse run by Secret Masters. [[Steve Jackson Games]] also calls its online store "Warehouse 23". <ref>{{cite web|accessdate=October 26|accessyear=2007|url=http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/warehouse23|title= Steve Jackson Games }}</ref>

==Real-world government warehouses ==
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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>[http://asv.vatican.va/home_en.htm Vatican<!-- bot-generated title -->] at asv.vatican.va</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 are alleged to hold many secrets, such as unpublished records of the [[Knights Templar]].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 [[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>

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.

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

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