Mall of America Children's Discovery and Science Center

This is a mall museum attraction that could replace what used to be Bloomingdales only on second, third, and fourth floors. (The first floor is already taken by Forever 21 and some other stores under construction.)

Second Floor
This floor includes an entryway complete with a gift shop, a cafe, an interactive play area, a media center, and live animal exhibits including 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. There is an elevator, some escalators, and a stairway to go up to the third and top floor and then down.

Third Floor
The third floor includes 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 Ancient Egypt exhibit, a gem exhibit, a tornado machine, a virtual volleyball game, and a fossil exhibit.

Fourth Floor
The fourth floor, a new additional floor to the museum, includes 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 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 plesiosaur Thalassomedon, a semi-aquatic reptile Placodus, an early whale Basilosaurus, and a giant squid battling gulper eels. Also there is a hanging life-size Pteranodon and a hands-on robotic Dimetrodon, as well as several hands-on activities.