Snow globe

Snow globes were hand-held ornaments that produced a fake snow storm when shaken.

In a marketplace, Peri Brown took a snow globe from a curio stall and raised it when she felt threatened by a man dressed in an animal costume who was attacking another man. (PROSE: See No Evil)

The Celestial Toymaker kept the village of Stockbridge in a snow globe while he created a false village to trap the Eighth Doctor. The Doctor and Izzy Sinclair went into the snow globe in the TARDIS, but left soon after learning where they were. (COMIC: Endgame)

During his  ninth incarnation, the Doctor had a room full of  snow globes  on the TARDIS. ( AUDIO :  Retail Therapy )

Behind the scenes
Director Ben Wheatley claimed that he deliberately tucked away a snow globe inside Peter Capaldi's original TARDIS set. On the Into the Dalek commentary, he said that those knowledgeable of would know what that meant. After he made an oblique reference to the Universe theory, he continued, "The history of American television is within the snow globe, and now that's in the TARDIS, so there ya go."