Athletic Memorabilia Pest Management Checklist for School Archives and Displays
A retired championship jersey stored in a trophy case corridor, a box of 1980s game programs stacked in a storage room, a leather-bound coaches ledger donated by a family after a season-ending ceremony — all of these objects share one invisible threat that most school athletic departments never think about until damage is already done: insect and rodent activity. Pests do not discriminate between a display case in the lobby and an unmarked banker’s box on a shelf. Clothes moths attack wool letter sweaters whether they sit on a mannequin behind glass or lie folded in a cardboard archive box. Silverfish consume the emulsion layer on photographs regardless of whether the photograph is framed for display or sleeved in a storage file. A structured athletic memorabilia pest management checklist gives schools a repeatable process for inspecting, isolating, monitoring, cleaning, documenting, and safely returning athletic artifacts to displays and archives — before damage becomes permanent.
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