RECOMMENDED: More things to do in the fall with kids
However many things to do in New York there may be this fall, we have a penchant for the kid-friendly cultural offerings that NYC museums always seem to put together in celebration of the season of renewal. The crop of shows this fall is wide-ranging, featuring everything from two hands-on building studios (at the Brooklyn Children's Museum and Liberty Science Center) and art made of melted superheroes (at the Japan Society) to a much buzzed-about contemporary artwork fashioned from plush animals (at MoMA PS1). And when you're planning things to do in New York around museum exhibits, don't ever think of it as choosing indoors over outdoors: You can always work in a trip to a nearby park or playground afterward to make your outing as yin-yang as it gets.