The mammoth hunters
Moravia 29,000 years back — the hall before history.
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Found 1925 in a mammoth-hunter camp near Dolní Věstonice south of Brno: an abstracted female form of deliberately fired clay — meaning humans invented the technology of ceramics here fifteen millennia before its supposed dawn, and for art, not pots. Literally priceless (foreign loans banned) — and a child's fingerprint on her back a beloved riddle: who touched her wet, 29,000 years ago?
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Czechia's second museum in age and size (1817): the Moravian Museum in the Dietrichstein Palace over the Vegetable Market guards six million pieces — its star the old world's first lady: the Venus of Věstonice, the fired-clay female figurine of 29,000 years, humanity's oldest ceramic anywhere and Moravia its home (the original shows from the vault on occasions — the hall telling of the mammoth hunters who made her). The wings are the region's encyclopedia: karst geology and its caves, medieval Moravia's life, and the family-beloved traditional nature halls — and the Dietrichstein Palace itself has a rear terrace view over the market worth the climb. Its neighbour the Bishop's Court is its smaller branch with the marvellous microscopic 'world of the cell' — tickets bundle across branches: ninety minutes serves the main palace, a rainy day seats both.
Moravia 29,000 years back — the hall before history.
Baroque over the market — the building as first exhibit.
Zelný trh 8, 659 37 Brno