This is an industrial area origination from the 1st half of the 19th century. In the early 1990s, the first important technical objects and equipment in the Vítkovice Ironworks [Vítkovické železárny], in the lower part of Vítkovice, were declared pieces of the Czech Cultural Heritage.
The Bata-Canal is the used waterway important for transport, class 0. Without licence, it is possible to drive small vessels up to the engine output of 20 kW, which are designed only for buoyancy navigation with the maximum speed of 20 km/h.
Vojtěch Náprstek (1826-1894) založil původně České průmyslové muzeum.