In 2010 it moved to space in the Beit Ariela library complex in Tel Aviv, where it has room for work and study and the collections are kept in proper, monitored conditions.

Asher Barash wrote in 1951: "In due time it will be an archive and gathering place for the entire Jewish creative work, for collecting writings by Jews in any language, first and foremost Yiddish."

The institute currently keeps close to 900 personal archives of writers, poets, playwrights, researchers and thinkers from the middle of the 19th century to the present day.

Among the literary artists whose archives are kept in Gnazim are Judah Leib Gordon, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Yosef Haim Brenner, Yehuda Burla, Rachel, Esther Raab, Leah Goldberg and Zelda and well-known contemporary writers including Yona Wallach, Avot Yeshurun, Yehuda Atlas, Nachum Gutman and Yonatan Ratosh.

The Institute's treasures are exposed to the general public through various media channels, social networks, exhibitions, lectures, tours and artistic expressions such as plays based on archives.