Mall of America Children's Discovery and Science Center

This is a mall museum attraction idea devised by Fishbird. The project could replace what used to be Bloomingdales on the first, second, and third floors. 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 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.