The Museum's artist residencies began in 2002, when the Artistic Direction devised a working scheme through which artists, especially photographers, were invited to draw inspiration from the Museum's Collection and submit a personal project. The project, called Tender Puentes(Building Bridges), provided the artist with funding for its development as well as support and mentoring from the Museum team, mainly from its artistic directors.

Following the museum's inauguration in 2016, this joint framework has also been extended to other artistic disciplines such as dance, music, and theater under the more generic name of Performing Arts and Music Artist Residencies. 

Both programs are inspired by the collection, involve in-depth research and artistic creation, and offer an ever-current, fresh, and contemporary perspective on the themes and issues it raises.

Each project requires an enormous amount of conceptualization, research, execution, production, etc. The process is supported by the Museum and given the necessary attention to document each of its stages, often resulting in a publication that forms part of the Museum's collections. In addition, this work of documenting the research and artistic creation process will give rise to the "Archive of Artistic Processes" in 2023.