Kidzania opening at the Dubai Mall

The Dubai Mall has announced that its children’s educational amusement park will open in the third quarter of 2009.

Kidzania will be a child-sized replica of a retail city where children can play adult roles such as doctors, teachers, fire fighters, bankers, police officers, hairdressers and a multitude of other occupations.

It will include buildings such as a hospital, supermarket, beauty salon, and restaurants.

Children will be able to visit the buildings or choose to work in them, wearing an appropriate uniform.

The first Kidzania opened in 1999 at the Santa Fe Shopping Mall in Mexico City. Others are found in Tokyo and Jakarta.

Here’s a video showing a group of disabled children and their helpers visiting the Mexican park.

Tags: Downtown Burj Dubai, Dubai Mall, Kidzania