Senior leaders at the Metropolitan Museum of Art conceded to angry high-dollar donors that the institution had erred in choosing designer John Galliano, who was convicted over antisemitic abuse, for a major honor, sources said.

In a hastily arranged Zoom call late Monday afternoon with the museum’s influential board of trustees, Met CEO Max Hollein and billionaire board co-chair Tony James acknowledged concerns that the institution failed to gather sufficient input before moving forward with the polarizing selection, people familiar with the meeting told The Post.

“They admitted it was a mistake,” one source said of the hourlong discussion, which came just hours after Galliano, 65, announced he was stepping away from being honored at May’s star-packed Met Gala and from a related curated costume exhibition. The celebrated couture figure has long faced backlash for a past outburst in which he declared, “I love Hitler.”

According to the source, museum officials discussed how the decision-making process had broken down and acknowledged that the final choice was misguided.

James, sources said, personally conceded that Galliano was the wrong honoree at the wrong moment, particularly amid heightened alarm over rising antisemitism.

New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, an ex officio trustee who helped drive mounting protest against Galliano’s selection, spoke during the meeting and reiterated that honoring the onetime catwalk virtuoso was a bad move, sources said.

But while copping to botching the 2027 mega-fund-raising gala, Met execs and some trustees still refused to take on 76-year-old Vogue editrix Anna Wintour — and even her flamboyant buddy Galliano.

“People were complimentary of Anna,” a source said — adding that Met leadership was grateful that Galliano bowed out on his own.

Wintour, the ironfisted power behind the gala, has remained loyal to the eccentric Galliano, helping him to continue his fantastical work in the fashion field since his fall from grace.

Around 2011, Galliano was the star of legendary fashion house Dior when he was caught on camera hissing horrific anti-Jewish vitriol at various patrons of a cafe in Paris.

He blamed being booze- and drug-addled at the time, copped a mea culpa, entered rehab — and then seemed to make nice with some key Jewish national leaders.

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But a fashion publicist recently recounted how she and a friend had an antisemitic encounter with Galliano years later, in 2019, in which he sneered over her pal speaking in Hebrew. Galliano has denied the encounter ever happened.

Wintour has stood by the disgraced designer through it all, even calling his decision to step down from his Met fete “courageous.’’

No decision was made about a replacement “theme’’ for the gala or exhibit, Met officials noted at the meeting, sources said.

But there also was heightened discussion and soul-searching about the Met’s values overall, sources said.

“I felt that it was a two-part problem,’’ said Met donor Alice Tisch, referring to Galliano’s selection, to The Post on Monday after his sensational bow-out.

“It was the Jewish problem — which is so, you know, heightened right now with all of the issues and all of the antisemitism,” said Tisch, who is not a trustee.

“But as much as that, it was the governance issue that just bespeaks a larger problem and something that should not be,” she said.

“You can’t have one donor to the museum, whether they’re a trustee or not, saying ‘We’re going to do this show, this is an artist we need to promote,’” said Tisch, a relative of NYPD Commish Jessica Tisch. “It’s got to come from curatorial. There’s got to be church and state. This stuff has to be a little separate.

“I did enough research into it,’’ she said. “I was thinking, it’s got to be that at least 50 percent of the donors to the Met are Jews — you know, historic big collections.

“There’s the Lehman collection, the Gelman collection, the Annenberg collection. There’s a lot of great Jewish collections there.

“So they’re also running a Lee Krasner and a Jackson Pollock show at the same time. And that’s when I started to think, what would Lee Krasner do? What would one of these Jewish artists’ responses be to the Met for showing this art?”

Dozens of suspected migrants were rescued from a 30-foot pleasure boat after being stranded for two days without fuel, food or water nearly 90 miles off the Southern California coast, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Coast Guard officials said 37 suspected migrants were on board when rescue crews reached the vessel Friday about 88 miles from Channel Islands Harbor.

The operation got underway around 3:40 p.m. after the boat’s operator contacted the Coast Guard by radio to request assistance.

According to the operator, the boat had been adrift for two days, had run out of fuel and was carrying no food, water or personal safety equipment.

The Coast Guard sent several crews to the area, including the cutters Sockeye and Halibut, boats from stations in Los Angeles-Long Beach and Channel Islands, and an air crew.

Crews found the boat around 8:30 p.m. and brought all 37 suspected migrants aboard the Sockeye.

“I could not be prouder of the Coast Guard crews on scene who were directly responsible for 37 lives saved last night,” said Master Chief Peter Nelson, the Sockeye’s officer in charge.

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Nelson said crews carried out the rescue at night in rough conditions far from shore.

“Despite operating far offshore in rough conditions at night, they persevered until every person in danger was rescued,” Nelson said. “Their extraordinary professionalism, superb judgment, and impeccable seamanship shined throughout the entire case.”

The Sockeye brought the group to Coast Guard Base Los Angeles-Long Beach, where they were turned over to U.S. Border Patrol.

The Coast Guard did not immediately say where the group was from, where the boat began its journey or where it was headed.

A New Mexico father has been arrested after police said he allegedly left his twin toddlers inside a sweltering car for hours while he went dancing with a friend at an Albuquerque bar.

Stephan Natseway, 27, is facing charges of child abuse and abandonment after his 20-month-old children were discovered lethargic and drenched in sweat inside the vehicle, where authorities said they had been left for more than two hours.

Officers located the car outside The Dirty Bourbon Dance Hall & Saloon in Albuquerque after security staff spotted the two young children locked inside with no adult present, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the Santa Fe New Mexican .

Police broke into the vehicle through the front driver’s-side window at about 1.30am Saturday and removed the boys from their car seats, which officers noted had not been secured to the back seats of the vehicle, the outlet reported.

Bodycam footage captured officers remarking that the toddlers were “soaked” as they pulled them from the car. The temperature in Albuquerque remained around 73 degrees after 11pm, according to the National Weather Service.

In a parked car, 73 degree air temperature can heat a vehicle up to as high as 100 degrees in just 25 minutes, climbing up to 115 degrees in an hour.  

‘That’s insane. That’s disgusting,’ another officer reportedly said. 

Natseway walked up and identified the car as his before he told police officers that he ‘wanted to have time to himself,’ the complaint stated. 

The father claimed he tried to call family members to watch the children for the night, but no one had been available, the outlet reported. 

He also said he would have left the bar earlier but wasn’t able to because others had been dancing with him, according to the complaint. 

Natseway was reportedly heard in additional footage telling officers: ‘I can’t really go to jail tonight.’ 

Security in the bar scanned Natseway’s driver’s license just before 11pm, the outlet reported.  

Natseway was accused of having ‘endangered the lives and safety of his two children by leaving them in a hot car,’ prosecutors said in a motion to have the father detained before he goes to trial. 

‘They are unable to care for themselves. Security found them sweating and alone in a car for approximately 2.5 hours. 

‘Even if the heat is not accounted for, the Defendant placed the children in danger so that he could go dancing. While they were alone in the car, a stranger could have kidnapped the children.’

Both Natseway and his friend told law enforcement that they knew the young boys had been left in the car, according to the complaint. 

The children’s mother was previously charged with child abuse just a year prior after one of the boy’s arms was broken while in her care as she was allegedly heavily intoxicated, the outlet reported. 

According to the complaint, Natseway has been reported by The Children, Youth and Families Department of New Mexico after allegedly failing to take the boy to eight follow-up appointments. 

The father has also been investigated for two previous reports of neglect, but the allegations were not able to be evidenced, the outlet reported. 

A spokesperson for CYFD told the Daily Mail that the boys were placed with a family member after being transported to hospital. 

‘The hospital examined the children and discharged them after evaluation. Because the Indian Child Welfare Act applies here, CYFD notified the appropriate tribe or pueblo, which initially exercised jurisdiction to complete the investigation,’ spokesperson Jake Thompson said in a statement. 

‘The children were released to a family member, and tribal social services completed a home visit to ensure safety. After 4.00pm Monday, the tribe notified the department that it would not be keeping jurisdiction, so CYFD will complete the investigation. CYFD was notified that the children remain with the family member.

‘Stephan agreed to accept and continue family support services the department recommended.’

Natseway was booked into the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center.  

The Daily Mail reached out to the Albuquerque Police Department and CYFD for comment.