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Every fall we get emails from readers asking us to recommend school holiday camps for Election Day (Tuesday, November 6), Veterans Day (Monday, November 12) and all those other days when public schools are closed but many parents still need to work. (Columbus Day, Rosh Hashanah, Black Friday, we're looking at you.) While there are many wonderful mini-camps to choose from during the big school vacations like holiday, midwinter and spring breaks, it seems harder to find coverage on those one-off holidays that pop up throughout the academic year.

But we did the research and found that there actually are quality programs offering fun-filled one-day camps on many of these holidays, where kids can enjoy soccer, cooking, theater, robotics and chess. So don't take the day off from work: Send your kids to one of these cool-sounding holiday camps instead.

So far this month we've told you about the best kids' concerts and family theater shows debuting this autumn. Now we finish up our fall culture coverage with a roundup of kid-friendly museum exhibits that are opening over the next few months.

While the Brooklyn Children's Museum, the Children's Museum of Manhattan and the Children's Museum of the Arts are all unveiling cool new interactive installations, there are a bunch of awesome exhibits at "adult" museums that are sure to please school-age kids and their parents, like the Guggenheim's Picasso retrospective and the Metropolitan Museum's show of artists inspired by Pop Art great Andy Warhol. Plus the Toy Museum of NY is moving to a brand-new Brooklyn location and original illustrations by Beatrix Potter will be on display at the Morgan. Here are 13 family-friendly exhibits that we're looking forward to taking our kids to this fall.

[UPDATED: February 23, 2013]  While there's always a big push for summer reading, kids' math skills don't get much of a workout while school's on break. Come September, many students find they've forgotten a lot of what they had learned and start out the academic year behind.

In order to make sure your kids' math knowledge doesn't melt away in the summer sun, our education blogger, Blythe, has rounded up New York City camps and classes where students can put two and two together—and hopefully do a lot more complicated equations. Our picks include competitive math programs, individualized instruction and remedial classes.