Government warehouse (non-fiction)
- This article is AbOUT normal government owned or operated warehouses, for the entity of conspiracy theories or the plot device used in fiction, see Government warehouse (fiction).
A government warehouse is a warehouse owned or operated by a government, for such purposes as storage of goods that are passing through customs, storage of impounded property, or storage of supplies and equipment.
Famous government warehouses
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 The Vatican Secret Archives are alleged to hold many secrets, such as unpublished records of the Knights Templar. 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.
- Ford's Theatre was used as a government warehouse from 1893 to 1931.
- The Military Government Warehouse was used for storage of property seized by the United States Army on 1945-05-16 from a train in Werfen, Austria, the so-called "Gold Train".
Further reading
— The Jet Propulsion Laboratory makes surplus equipment available from a government warehouse
— Procedures relating to government warehouses in Ethiopia
— Legislation relating to government warehouses in Uganda
— A memorandum relating to a government warehouses in New South Wales, Australia
— A picture of people removing things from an Iraqi government warehouse