Mall of America Children's Discovery and Science Center

This is a mall museum that will replace what used to be Bloomingdales only on second, third, and fourth floors. (The first floor is already taken by Forever 21.)

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, a reptile and amphibian herpetarium, and a small mammal exhibit, as well as a live beaver exhibit. There is an elevator to go up to the third and top floor.

Third Floor
The third floor includes a changing exhibit hall used for traveling exhibitions, such as those made by Peeling Productions and a robotic insect exhibit "Backyard Monsters". Also adjecent to the exhibit hall is an Ancient Egypt exhibit and a fossil exhibit.

Top Floor
The top floor includes a very large permanent exhibit called "Prehistoric Animals: Monsters of the Ice Age and the Deep, which includes a lot of robotic creatures (made by the former company Dinamation) including a woolly mammoth and its baby, a saber-toothed tiger on its mammoth prey, a giant sloth Eremotherium and its baby, a glyptodont Doedicurus, a rhinoceros-like six horned Eobasileus, a woolly rhinoceros, 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, 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.