Government warehouse

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The government warehouses of fiction and conspiracy theories (WP) have a number of analogues in the real world, although some are not run by official national governments. Historically, the template is the 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 The Vatican Secret Archives are alleged to hold many secrets, such as unpublished records of the Knights Templar. 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.

In the United States, the National Archives and Records Administration and the Wikipedia:Library of Congress both have numerous government warehouses to store historic items and documents. Area 51, northwest of Las Vegas, was the home to a number of black projects (WP); secret military programs.

The Government Warehouse is a plot device used in movies, television series, and Wikipedia:novels, a scenario used in Wikipedia:role-playing games, and a belief of some conspiracy theorists. The concept is that there is a secret government warehouse where various items are stored of whose existence the (WP) wants the general populace to remain ignorant.

Conspiracy theorists

The belief of some conspiracy theorists is that the Government Warehouses exist, containing suppressed inventions, archaeological and historical evidence that contradicts mainstream theory, and objects that have famously been lost. The Wikipedia:Vatican Secret Archives and the storage areas of the Wikipedia:Smithsonian Institution are claimed to be real Government Warehouses.

The exact locations of such warehouses are unknown and may have several locations. The British Government Warehouse, the Vatican Warehouse, the Soviet Government Warehouse, and the Wikipedia:Japanese Government Warehouse may be part of a network of the original Wikipedia:United States Government Warehouse, according to some conspiracy theorists. (Some sources have these as a subdivision in the original United States Government Warehouse.)

The warehouse is supposedly comprised of a secret organization whose members are sworn to secrecy and do not disclose their membership, location, nor the operations. The Government Warehouse allegedly contains everything that fell into government hands and was never seen again. The Government Warehouse also allegedly includes things that individuals claim exist but the Government has decided to hide away, such as suppressed Wikipedia:inventions. It has been alleged to be located in a fish processing and packaging plant, United States Government surplus warehouse, and the Wikipedia:World Trade Center.

In fiction

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The Government Warehouse at the end of the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark.

In Wikipedia:fiction, the Government Warehouse is a plot device used for conveniently disposing of story elements that have fulfilled their purpose in a story, but that would cause consistency or continuity problems for subsequent (or previous) stories in the same fictional setting were they to remain. In many cases, the story items disposed of are of such a nature that they would make it difficult to set up the necessary tensions and conflicts for other stories in the same fictional setting, as they would make such tensions and conflicts simple to resolve.