From the Denver Art Museum to the Denver Zoo and more, five SCFD organizations will provide free admission to Colorado residents on select days of the year. Free Days are funded in part by the citizens of the metro area, including portions of Douglas County, via the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) 0.1% sales and use tax.

Greater Denver Metro area voters created the SCFD in 1988 to ensure public access to the arts and sciences through public financial support for scientific and cultural organizations. Since then, SCFD has funded more than 500 organizations via the 0.1% (1¢ on every $10) retail sales and use tax in the seven-county District.

SCFD facilitates distribution of the voter-approved retail sales and use tax funds to nonprofit and local government organizations that provide for the enlightenment and entertainment of the public through the production, exhibition, advancement or preservation of art, music, theater, dance, zoology, botany, natural history or cultural history.

For more information about the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District and all of the organizations participating in 2012 Free Days – including specific dates and locations – please visit the SCFD website at www.scfd.org.