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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA is honored to announce it has assumed stewardship of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Inc. FAMSI. FAMSIs dedication to research and online collaboration over the past two decades has made it an invaluable tool for preColumbian studies internationally and the principal source for research of ancient cultures. By adding FAMSIs significant scholarly resources to LACMAs important preColumbian collections LACMA looks forward to an exciting new future for the Art of the Ancient Americas.