You have to keep those sort of museums up to date. As I recall the Computer History Museum in Boston, they had some interesting historical artifacts like Sage I think. But a fair bit of the museum was devoted to supposedly state of the art computing, some interactive. As a lot of the local computer companies went away, a lot of the the exhibits started looking pretty dated--and I'm sure a lot of funding dried up as well.

I go to the Strong almost every weekend with my kids and they love it. I think there are some examples of poor uses of technology that the OP is talking about (screens that just replicate something you could play at home). But there is also some incredibly cool stuff that combines technology with physical play.

Their POS machines actually recognize Wegman's Shoppers Club Cards, too.

My kids just use the actual self checkout machines / lanes.

The Museum of Play and Wegmans are really class acts.

I'd honestly love if there was a procession of PoS systems, so you can view and compare the history