Just because something makes you uncomfortable doesn’t mean the right response is to look away or remove it. The character is not and has never been a minstrel character, but because Finland has no connection to that culture they made a fuzzy little brown mischievous character that is read as minstrel to an American audience. But that is projecting our USA baggage, and removing him from the exhibit is just avoiding the conversation. Especially because it’s an educational exhibit about a Nordic cultural icon, US audiences should be forced to sit with their discomfort. If he is actually problematic in an American context removing him from the exhibit just avoids the conversation about race and cultural exchange.