is a ceramic statuette of a naked woman made of burnt clay dating from the Young Paleolithic and dated to the period 29,000-25,000 years BC This figure (along with several others from the surrounding localities) is the oldest known ceramic statuette in the world. [1 ] Its discovery refuted the previous assumption that pottery was not yet known at the time of the Paleolithic.

The statuette is stored in the Moravian Museum in Brno in the collections of the Anthropos Institute. It is exhibited only occasionally and is replaced by a copy in the regular exhibition. Its value was set by US antique dealers at $ 40 million in 2004.

At the end of World War II, the Venus of Věstonice with part of the collections of the Brno Museum was kept in the Mikulov chateau. The protectorate authorities were concerned about damage during the bombing, so the museums took the most valuable part of the collection and Venus back to Brno under the pretext of photography] Part of the collection that remained in Mikulov was destroyed during the liberation struggles when the castle burned down on April 22, 1945.

Since 2008, the archeological site of Dolní Věstonice and a set of the most important finds, including the Venus of Věstonice, have been a national cultural monument.