Mall of America Children's Discovery and Science Center

This is a mall museum attraction idea devised by Fishbird. The project could be added as an additional space next to the Mall of America, complete with a walkway attached from the mall to the museum on the second floor. The project's details are as follows.

First Floor
For this floor, Fishbird devises an entryway complete with a gift shop, a cafe, an interactive play area, a media center, and live animal exhibits including a native Minnesota aquarium, an insect zoo (complete with a glassed-in beehive and a large leaf-cutter ant farm) and a reptile and amphibian herpetarium, as well as a live skunk exhibit and a live beaver exhibit. Included are plans for an elevator, some escalators, and a stairway to go up to the second and top floor and then down.

Second Floor
For the second floor, there should be a changing exhibit hall used for traveling exhibitions, such as those made by Peeling Productions, a Grossology exhibit, an exhibit called "Savage Ancient Seas" featuring 14 complete prehistoric marine life specimens, and a robotic insect exhibit "Backyard Monsters". Also adjecent to the exhibit hall is an Imax theater, an Ancient Egypt exhibit, a gem exhibit, a tornado machine, a virtual volleyball game, a Frozen Shadows room, and a fossil exhibit.

Third Floor
The third floor should include a very large permanent exhibit called "Prehistoric Animals: Monsters of the Ice Age and the Deep, which includes 22 animatronic creatures (made by the now-defunct company Dinamation) including a woolly mammoth and its baby, a saber-toothed cat Smilodon on its mammoth prey, a giant sloth Eremotherium and its baby, a glyptodont Doedicurus, a rhinoceros-like six horned Eobasileus, a woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta, a giant warthog-like Megachoerus, the elephant-like Platybelodon, a huge predatory bird Diatryma, a giant predatory whale ancestor Andrewsarchus, an armored fish Dunkleosteus, a mosasaur Tylosaurus, a giant short-necked plesiosaur Kronosaurus, a sea scorpion Pterygotus, a giant long-necked plesiosaur Thalassomedon, a semi-aquatic reptile Placodus, an early whale Basilosaurus, and a giant squid battling gulper eels. Also there should be a hanging life-size Pteranodon and a hands-on robotic Dimetrodon, as well as several hands-on activities.