Courtesy Charlie Harper Art Studio
Courtesy Charlie Harper Art Studio

"Tweet" at the Children's Museum of the Arts
CMA surely loves Twitter as much as the rest of us, but this exhibition spotlights not the social media instrument but the feathered creatures who make the old-fashioned kind of tweets. The show presents a huge and delightful array of avian-themed art, from Vik Muniz’s enormous Hummingbird, made of industrial scraps, to a collage of Patagonia-clad birds by Fred Tomaselli and a MetroCard mosaic of common city bird species by artist Nina Boesch—plus more traditional renderings, like gouache artist Amy Jean Porter’s bird portraits. The works are meant to inspire kids to stop and look at nature, which smartphones can sometimes get in the way of. The show’s interactive aspects include bird call workshops taught by Audubon naturalists; on-site art workshops galore, with kids making everything from Egyptian bird hieroglyphs to cockatiel costumes and rolling penguin push toys; and an off-site bird scavenger hunt through the city on Columbus Day weekend, in which kids seek out a given number of birds across the city—whoever finds and tweets images of all them first wins a free CMA membership for a year. On view at the Children's Museum of the Arts from September 26 to January 26, 2014.

Things to do in New York: 12 museum shows for kids in fall 2013

The best things to do in New York City this fall include a stellar lineup of family-friendly museum exhibits. Use our guide to find out what’s planned.

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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.

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