A decision Monday by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen will allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Jesse Brent Lower Mississippi Museum and Interpretive Center to remain open all week.

The board Monday approved an agreement with the Corps to provide an additional worker at the museum to assist with its operations. City and Corps officials are expected to sign the agreement during a ceremony Friday at the museum.

The board in 2015 hired a part-time employee to perform janitorial and maintenance at the museum, and also handles landscaping at the museum.

“This (agreement) will add an additional part-time person so the museum can be open Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, which it is not right now,” City Attorney Nancy Thomas said. “That would be open seven days a week tourists who come in either on the tour boats or elsewhere. They would have an opportunity to see the museum.”

“And hopefully it will increase tourism in the downtown area,” Mayor George Flaggs Jr. said.

The $23 million museum opened at Washington and Jackson streets in August 2012 as the Lower Mississippi Museum and Interpretive Center after nearly 20 years of planning.

The facility features a main hall with educational exhibits about the river and offers tours of the retired towboat MV Mississippi IV.

In May 2014, it was named the Jesse Brent Lower Mississippi Museum and Interpretive Center in honor of Jesse Brent, known as the “Granddaddy of the Towboat Industry,” who founded Greenville Towing Company and later Brent Towing Company.

He served as the company’s chairman until his death in 1982.