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 a new entryway, 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 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. 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 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 is a hanging life-size Pteranodon and a hands-on robotic Dimetrodon, as well as several hands-on activities.