Museum of the Last Ones The Museum of the Last Ones ( frequently abbreviated as MOTLO ) was a museum that kept a single living specimen of each species that had become extinct . Layout . The Museum had specimen from planets from the Mutter ' s Spiral and the Andromeda Galaxy , including Earth , Mars , Venus , Mondas , Raxacoricofallapatorius , Refusis II , Varos and Tara . These specimen were kept in stasis in clear boxes . Teams were devoted to collecting from these planets , generally chosen to resemble the natives . They had pendants which allowed them to teleport to the planet and communicate with the other members of the team . Eve had a machine which could sense when a species was going extinct and where , allowing her to send in teams to collect the last specimen . The machine made logical prediction and couldn ' t predict the future , so she was unable to react quickly enough if the whole planet was destroyed . Time travel ling species , like the Dalek s and Time Lord s , were hard to track and eventually Eve stopped trying to follow them . The museum occupied a whole planet and the hemispheres were open to the public in shifts . Because of the museum ' s great size , a comprehensive system of teleports was used to speed up travel across the planet . There was also a gift shop and cafeteria with vending machines instead of cafeteria workers . ( PROSE : " The Last Dodo " ) History . Around 500 million BC , Hr ' oln survived the destruction of his planet and found a new planet to live on . He created Eve to interact with the humanoid inhabitants . When these inhabitants were wiped out by a plague , he programmed Eve to find a way to save other species . Eve decided the best way to do that would be to capture the last of every species and kept them in stasis , as she did with Hr ' oln . She created the Museum of the Last Ones to store these individuals . Around the 2060s , Eve and Frank started cloning specimens to sell to pay for the museum . Eve was also creating clones of dodo s and sabre - toothed tiger s , which she would use to destroy entire planets . The sabre - toothed tigers would cause havoc , while the dodos would plant bombs . Using this method , Eve planned to destroy all life in the universe except for those stored in the museum . In 2062 , Frank wanted to make more money , so he stole specimens and sold them on Earth . When Martha Jones and the Tenth Doctor came to the Museum to complete the I - Spyder Book of Earth Creatures , they were blamed . The Doctor and Martha were able to find out who really stole them , but when Eve found out the Doctor was the last Time Lord , she captured him for the museum . When Martha tried to free him with the sonic screwdriver , she accidentally sent all the other Earth creatures back to Earth . Eve took advantage of this chaos and sent in sabre - toothed tigers and dodos with bombs to destroy Earth . The Doctor later confronted Eve and deactivated her by tampering with the gun she was using , causing it to backfire . He then deactivated all the bombs on Earth and modified the teleport , sending all the animals at the Museum back in time to before they went extinct . ( PROSE : " The Last Dodo " )